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NYT：マドリッド爆破事件逮捕イスラム改宗弁護士の件は奇々怪々
FBI当局の早とちりという意味だが、指紋など、スペイン当局とFBIの意見が違い、FBがI疑問視で、しかも、この弁護士は、地元のポートランドで、タリバン・アルカイダとの共謀で被告となっている人たちと付き合いがあり、その一人の代理人になっているというのである。
妻はエジプト人である。こりゃあ、奇々怪々なり。
阿修羅戦争54掲示板の既報には、以下がある。続けて見ると、ますます、奇々怪々になること、請け合いである。
「元政府報道官、３．１１で誰かが旧政権をハメた可能性も」その他（エル・ムンド）
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投稿者 バルセロナより愛を込めて 日時 2004 年 5 月 07 日 19:47:21:SO0fHq1bYvRzo
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08ARRE.html?th
May 8, 2004
Arrest in Bombing Inquiry Was Rushed, Officials Say
By SARAH KERSHAW and DAVID JOHNSTON
PORTLAND, Ore., May 7 -- The authorities arrested a Portland lawyer in connection with the Madrid railway bombings before they had a clear idea about the strength of their case and they cut short a planned covert surveillance of him because of concerns that information was leaking out to the news media, law enforcement officials said Friday.
On Thursday the F.B.I. arrested the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, 37, on a material witness warrant in connection with the attacks, which killed 191 people on March 11. Mr. Mayfield, who practices immigration and family law, is a former Army lieutenant and a convert to Islam.
The law enforcement officials said they were afraid that Mr. Mayfield, who is originally from Kansas, might become a fugitive if he knew he was under suspicion. So monitoring that was just getting started was abruptly halted. Mr. Mayfield was arrested before investigators had fully examined his phone records, before they knew if he had ever met with any of the bombing suspects, before they knew if he had ever traveled to Spain or elsewhere overseas. His relatives said he had not been out of the United States for 10 years.
The leaks, the officials said, left prosecutors little choice but to hold Mr. Mayfield as a material witness, which gives investigators more time to assemble a clearer sense of any role he may have played. But they will have to provide evidence to a judge to continue to hold him.
F.B.I. officials in Portland declined to comment, other than to repeat what they said after Mr. Mayfield's arrest, that two search warrants had been served, one for his home and one for his office.
Information about the authorities' rush to arrest Mr. Mayfield came as new questions arose about the strength of the evidence against him.
Spanish officials said on Friday that American investigators had apparently matched Mr. Mayfield's fingerprints to a single print on a plastic bag recovered from a stolen van used by the bombers. The bag, which held seven copper detonators like those used on the train bombs, was found at a suburban Madrid train station hours after the bombings.
A senior Spanish counterterrorism official said that investigators from Spain and the United States differed on whether the fingerprint on the bag conclusively matched those of Mr. Mayfield, who was identified to the Spaniards only as a military veteran who had converted to Islam. Though a Spanish police report described the forensic evidence as a match, the official said, F.B.I. officials had raised some questions.
Meanwhile, members of Mr. Mayfield's family were trying to make sense of what happened. Mr. Mayfield's wife, Mona, and their three children stayed inside their home in the Portland suburb of Aloha, avoiding a crush of reporters.
Mr. Mayfield's mother, AvNell Mayfield, said in a telephone interview from Hutchinson, Kan., that F.B.I. agents had searched her son's house, going through computers and papers and taking Mona Mayfield's credit card. They also froze Mr. Mayfield's bank accounts and assets, his mother said, and took him to a Portland jail with no explanation.
"They wouldn't even tell her where Brandon was being held," Mrs. Mayfield said. "Only after a lot of pleading did they tell her that he was being held as a material witness."
Mr. Mayfield, who is an American citizen, has a link to one of the six defendants in a highly publicized case in Portland who were convicted of conspiring to aid the Taliban and Al Qaeda. He represented one defendant, Jeffrey Leon Battle, in a custody case involving Mr. Battle's son. Mr. Mayfield did not represent Mr. Battle in the criminal case.
Only a few weeks ago, AvNell Mayfield said, Mr. Mayfield was telling her how upset he was by the case of Capt. James Yee, a Muslim Army chaplain who had been accused of espionage before charges were dropped. Captain Yee and Mr. Mayfield had both been stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State and had crossed paths while stationed in Germany, she said.
"He thought that was so unfair, that our government could ruin a person like that and no public apologies were made," Mrs. Mayfield, a seventh-grade art teacher, said. "I never thought it would happen to my family."
AvNell Mayfield, who was planning to fly to Portland on Saturday, said she had not spoken to her son, only to his wife. She said Mona Mayfield had not yet been permitted to speak with her husband.
"People who grew up with Brandon or met him, went to school with him, served in the military with him -- they all know that this is an outrage," she said. "He's not this wicked, evil, bombing, child-killing person. There is a person behind that face on the news who is being torn apart."
Mr. Mayfield was raised in a farmhouse in Halstead, about 25 miles from Wichita, one of three boys born to his parents. He grew up with half-siblings and stepsiblings, too, after his parents divorced.
After high school, Mr. Mayfield served for eight years in the Army before being honorably discharged as a second lieutenant at Fort Lewis, his mother said. Mr. Mayfield met Mona, an Egyptian, while at Fort Lewis. When they married in 1989, he converted to Islam, and he is a member of a Portland-area mosque.
Mr. Mayfield was admitted to the Oregon bar in 2000 and has a small practice in Beaverton.
A decade ago he found a mentor in Thomas H. Nelson, a Portland lawyer who is also a Muslim. He called Mr. Nelson after his arrest, and Mr. Nelson has been vocal about what he calls a bogus case. "Being associated with terrorism is something that can certainly grab the public's attention," Mr. Nelson said. "That association was leaked to the media in an utterly dangerous fashion."
Sarah Kershaw reported from Portland for this article and David Johnston from Washington. Tim Golden contributed reporting from New York and Brian Libby from Portland.
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