In a story full of twists, and certainly worthy of a movie, a federal immigration judge in San Diego on Wednesday tentatively granted asylum Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas founder who converted to Christianity and became a spy for Israel, the Associated Press reported.

AP reported that the ruling came in a wake of the feds dropping concerns that he was a terrorist threat.

He argued that he’d be killed if he returned home. He was a spy for Israel’s Shin Bet, an Israeli intelligence agency.

“I will keep fighting the ideology that is behind terrorists because I know how they think,” he told reporters in the parking lot, according to AP. “I know that this is the real danger that is facing liberty, facing freedom, facing humanity.”

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