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Police arrest stabbing suspect at BART 

SAN FRANCISCO – Police on Wednesday took one man into custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest after leading police on a foot chase through the Civic Center BART station. 

According to a police spokeswoman, a female victim was stabbed in the area of Seventh and Market streets at roughly 6 a.m. after the suspect attempted to sell her concert tickets. 

Responding officers learned that the suspect had entered the Civic Center station, prompting BART officials to shut down power at the station, significantly impacting the morning commute, the spokeswoman said. 

The spokeswoman said that following a brief foot chase through the station, officers were able to apprehend the man, who has not yet been identified. 

Although BART power was restored at 6:29 a.m., 20-minute delays in the East Bay continued for about an hour. 

Calif. businessman agrees to deportation 

SAN FRANCISCO — A Pakistani native detained since June for overstaying his student visa has agreed to be deported but denies the government’s allegation that he might be involved in terrorism. 

Nasir Ali Mubarak, 34, attended flight schools with Abdul Hakim Murad, a man convicted of a 1995 plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners and who allegedly admitted ties to Osama bin Laden. 

But he said he didn’t know Murad was involved in terrorism and hadn’t seen nor talked with him since 1992. 

Mubarak now has an American-born wife and an airplane repainting business in Corning, about 170 miles northeast of San Francisco, and had applied for permanent residency based on his marriage. 

“Since I’ve been in the United States I’ve loved this country,” he told U.S. Immigration Judge Alberto Gonzales of San Francisco on Tuesday. “I wanted to stay here.” 

Now, he and his wife plan to resettle in the United Arab Emirates. His wife plans to join him, but he will have to leave behind two young children from a previous relationship.