Mohammad Sami v. United States of America

WALD, Circuit Judge:

This case is a tragedy of errors. It represents an extension of and embroils the United States Government and its officials in what a Maryland appellate court has called “an almost incredible history of marital warfare, with skirmishes occurring up and down the eastern seaboard of this country, as well as abroad.” Sami v. Sami, 29 Md.App. 161, 163-64, 347 A.2d 888, 890 (1975).

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

For more than a year preceding the events which gave rise to this suit, plaintiff, a citizen of Afghanistan and an economist stationed at the International Monetary Fund in…