http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/29/mayfield.suit/index.html
Was this attorney arrested because he is a muslim or did the FBI really make a mistake with fingerprints?
Was this attorney arrested because he is a muslim or did the FBI really make a mistake with fingerprints?
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| PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) -- The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it is paying $2 million and apologizing to an Oregon lawyer wrongly accused of being involved with the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, Spain.
Brandon Mayfield was arrested in Portland on a material witness warrant in May 2004, less than two months after the bombings. According to an FBI affidavit at the time, his fingerprint was identified as being on a blue plastic bag containing detonators found in a van used by the bombers. The FBI's fingerprint identification was wrong, however, and Mayfield was released several days later. The bombings of four commuter trains March 11, 2004, killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800. Mayfield charged he was a victim of profiling because the Portland-area attorney was a Muslim convert. |
