What Next?!: Iraqi fugitive Cabinet minister is in Jordan

A former Iraqi Cabinet minister from the Chicago area who escaped from a Baghdad prison this month has arrived in Jordan on a U.S. plane, Jordan's prime minister said Tuesday. Ayham al-Samaraie, a former minister of electricity with dual U.S. and Iraqi citizenship, was serving time for corruption when he escaped mid-December.

Okay, so I understand why someone who was in prison might want to escape, especially if you're cooling your heels in Iraq (pardon the irony of that pun).

...the Iraqi government was investigating al-Samaraie's escape, "and we are vigorously supporting their effort." He declined to say whether al-Samaraie, who has a home in the Chicago area, would be allowed to return to the United States. Al-Samaraie is a partner in the KCI Engineering Consultants firm in Downers Grove, Ill. He has told the Tribune that he intends to return to his home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Ill., after the new year.
On Dec. 19, he called the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times and gloated over his escape, referring to U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad as "suckers." He declined to tell the newspapers where he was, but said he was in "a very safe place."

But to escape, then call the hometown newspaper (and the NYTimes) in the U.S. and brag about it, all the while deriding the intelligence of your U.S. captors and claiming that you'll be home for Easter, isn't exactly what I'd call smart.
This person might have outsmarted (with help, as admitted) the U.S. Army, the world's largest bureaucracy. I doubt having taunted stateside law enforcement, that U.S. Immigration will make the same mistake.

In the telephone interviews with the Tribune and the Times last week, al-Samaraie said a "multinational" group had helped him escape from a police station inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. He said he escaped "the Chicago way" -- a reference to the film about Al Capone called "The Untouchables."

And I wouldn't be surprised if that U.S. Citizenship and Visa evaporate rather quickly. And if they don't, we're idiots.

Oh, and here's his picture in case DHS actually needs it.