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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                             No. 03-1208

MUSA NABIEU BANGURA,

                                                           Petitioner,

           versus

JOHN ASHCROFT,

                                                           Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A73-699-795)

Argued:   October 26, 2004                 Decided:   December 8, 2004

Before LUTTIG, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

ARGUED: Randall Lee Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, Arlington,
Virginia, for Petitioner.     Margaret Kuehne Taylor, Office of
Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Robert D. McCallum,
Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Mary Jane Candaux,
Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:

     Musa Bangura, a native and citizen of the Republic of Sierra

Leone, seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration

Appeals (“Board”) affirming without opinion the Immigration Judge’s

denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal.

     We   first     reject     Bangura’s   claim   that    he   established

eligibility   for   asylum     and   withholding   of   removal.    In   its

decision, the Board found that Bangura had not established a well-

founded fear of persecution based upon his political beliefs and

opinions if he returned to Sierra Leone.           To obtain reversal of

this decision, an alien “must show that the evidence he presented

was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find

the requisite fear of persecution.”          INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502

U.S. 478, 483-84 (1992).        We have reviewed the evidence of record

and conclude that Bangura has not shown that the evidence compels

a different result.          Bangura thus cannot also meet the higher

standard for withholding of removal.        See INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca,

480 U.S. 421, 430 (1987).

     We also reject Bangura’s claim that the Board’s summary

affirmance procedure violates his right to due process because the

Board did not give detailed consideration of his claim. See 8

C.F.R. § 1003.1(a)(7)(2004).          We have previously held that the

summary affirmance procedure comports with due process and after

reviewing the record, we find nothing in Bangura’s case that

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suggests his claim was not handled with the required consideration.

See Blanco de Belbruno v. Ashcroft, 362 F.3d 272, 281-83 (4th Cir.

2004).

     Because we find that substantial evidence supports the Board’s

denials and Bangura’s right to due process was not violated by the

summary affirmance procedure, the petition for review is

                                                           DENIED.

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