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Portland, Ore., lawyer Brandon Mayfield, 37, was arrested by FBI agents as part of the investigation into the deadly train bombings in Spain, federal officials said.
スペインの操作当局が指紋を同定できずに、諸国に配布。それが、軍役時に採取したMayfield弁護士の指紋と一致したという。
弁護士はカンサス人で、愛国ミサイル操作を任務とした退役陸軍兵であるが、物的証拠を理由に
嫌疑がかけられた。
弁護士とその関係者は、１０年以上も外国に行ったことも無いのに、温和なイスラム教徒になったこととマドリッド事件とを結びつけられていたそうだ。
記事
Saturday, May 8, 2004
U.S. lawyer's fingerprint linked to Madrid bombing
By Susan Schmidt and Blaine Harden / The Washington Post
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http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0405/08/nation-146590.htm
Investigators have linked Portland lawyer Brandon Mayfield to the Madrid terrorist bombings through a fingerprint lifted from a bag containing detonators discovered near the train station where three of the four bombed trains originated, according to sources in Spain and the United States familiar with the probe.
The bag, which contained cell phone detonators similar to those used in the attack that killed 191 people, was found in a stolen van left in the town of Alcala de Henares. It was parked near a house where police say the bombs were assembled.
Tracing another set of fingerprints found in both the van and the house, as well as the origin of the cell phones, police found a cell phone shop in Madrid owned by Moroccan Jamal Zougam, whom Spanish police describe as the plot?s mastermind.
When Spanish investigators were unable to identify one of the fingerprints on the bag in the van, they distributed it to other countries, including the United States, where authorities linked it to Mayfield, said the sources, who asked for anonymity because a judge has imposed a ?gag order? on government officials in the case. Mayfield would have been fingerprinted when he served in the military.
Mayfield, 37, a Kansas native and Army veteran who worked on Patriot missile batteries, was detained on a material witness warrant Thursday, the first American linked to the simultaneous bombings of four commuter trains in Madrid. More than 2,000 people were injured in the attack, which helped topple the Spanish government in an election held three days later.
Mayfield?s lawyer and relatives say they are baffled by the alleged connection between the mild-mannered Muslim convert and the Madrid plot, noting that Mayfield has not been out of the country in more than 10 years.
Mayfield told Thomas Nelson, the Portland lawyer who is acting as his spokesman, that he has never been to Spain, his passport expired in October of last year and he has never met anyone from Morocco.
?Brandon is flabbergasted,? Nelson said. ?He has no explanation for these charges. He thinks this is crazy.? Nelson said he believes that Mayfield?s only travel abroad occurred when he was in the Army and serving in Germany.
Mayfield?s younger sister, Amy Sikes, said in a telephone interview from Halstead, Kan., that her brother ?is no terrorist by any means? and that the family ?is in shock? over his detention. Sikes said Mayfield, like many others in the family, was critical of U.S. foreign policy, but ?he was not a radical? and does not have violent tendencies.
Nelson said that when FBI agents searched Mayfield?s home Thursday, they pulled out an ?oddly shaped blue plastic bag? and asked Mayfield?s wife if ?there were any of these around? the house. Nelson said Mona Mayfield had the impression, although the FBI agents did not say so, that it was the kind of bag on which her husband?s fingerprint was allegedly found in Spain.
?From Mona?s description, it was a really weird-looking bag, oblong and in the shape of a blackberry,? Nelson said. ?It was the kind of thing you get if were at a duty-free store.? Nelson said there was no such bag in the Mayfield house.
Nelson complained about a ?calculated leak? from the Justice Department to the news media Thursday about Mayfield, telling KATU-TV in Portland that the information has ?led to the frenzy that we see out here that is destroying and disparaging his family, his relationships, his children and his law practice. That leak is devastating. It was unnecessary, unethical and inappropriate.?
But federal officials were clearly upset that their investigation was rushed to a premature close. ?The plan was to sit on him longer, but it started to get out in a big way so they had to move,? said a law enforcement official who declined to be named, citing the gag order.
Roy Witt, a next door neighbor of Mayfield?s, said that for the past several weeks he had noticed men in unmarked cars parked in the neighborhood night and day, apparently watching Mayfield?s house.
One official said ?there are differing views? among U.S. and Spanish authorities on the quality of the match between the fingerprint on the detonator bag and Mayfield?s prints, but said the FBI ?believes this is a pretty good match. There is not a lot of concern about that.?
All the suspects in the Madrid bombings are Spanish or Moroccan. Eighteen have been arrested to date.
Acquaintances in Portland said they did not know of any involvement by Mayfield with militant Islam, though he became tangentially involved with one of six members of a Portland terror cell who pleaded guilty to various charges last year. Mayfield defended Jeffrey Leon Battle, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for conspiring to fight against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, in an unsuccessful bid to retain custody of his son.
?I don?t think they knew each other before Mayfield volunteered to represent him in the custody matter,? said one defense lawyer involved in the case. The lawyer described Mayfield as ?a very, very low key guy, very quiet,? and said ?he isn?t known in the legal community here, or in the Muslim community.?
Sikes said her brother served about four years in an Army signals unit out of Fort Lewis, Wash., in the late 1980s, and was stationed for about a year in Germany. She said he met his Egyptian-born wife, Mona, while at Fort Lewis and converted to Islam in 1989. The couple has two sons, ages 15 and 10, and a 12-year-old daughter, Sikes said.
?She?s the love of his life and I?m sure that?s what got him interested in the Islamic culture,? Sikes said of Mayfield?s wife. ?He?s very family-oriented and always has been.?
Mayfield earned his law degree in 1999 from Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kan., and passed the bar in Oregon the following year.
He took a job in the seaside town of Newport but was unhappy there because there was no mosque and no Islamic community. His former boss, lawyer Richard Diaz, said that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Mayfield felt compelled to speak out as a Muslim.
?He spoke publicly a couple of times in Newport, saying that people shouldn?t think all Muslims are terrorists.?
Mayfield and his family moved to Aloha, a suburb of Portland, and regularly attended the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton. He came to Friday prayers and volunteered to teach English to immigrants, said Shahriar Ahmed, leader of the mosque.
?He was well-spoken, a quiet person, very much into civil rights and people?s rights being trampled,? said Ahmed.
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