Oregon Man Arrested in Spain Bombings Probe

Fox News ^ | Thursday, May 06, 2004 | Fox News Staff

[B Knotts]

This one didn't even limit himself to America, but was shooting for all of Western Civilization!

[joyce11111]

Oh No.searched a mosque?!!??...
what ever will vera do now...
My, My, My!

[B Knotts]

But maybe they were "peaceful" explosives.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #220.

[varina davis]

Here is the Bilal Mosque School -- not far from he lives, etc.: http://www.bilalschool.com/

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[B Knotts]

FYI, Greta also used the term "detained."

[Oorang]

At least Vera's time us almost up. She is such a dreadful little troll.

[B Knotts]

Well, I know they say "past performance is not an indication of future results," but if you're looking for terrorists, Portland, Oregon, is a pretty good place to look.

[varina davis]

Not one word on this on Drudge -- he's getting slower and slower.

[cyncooper]

I saw someone else say local news was saying detained, too.

[Ready4Freddy]

A distinction without a difference......

[blam]

"See #220."

Thanks. I did ask you to speculate.

[joyce11111]

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Congratulations to the posters on this thread. It's mind-boggling how sharp freeper reporters and researchers are instantly on the job when we get breaking news like this.
Then comes analysis, deductive reasoning and cogent remarks as the thread continues. Then more facts, more up-to-date news....it just keeps coming.

We're all blessed by these alert and hard-working warriors who keep us informed.

My gratitude to you all.

Leni

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When I first heard this story via email, I promptly came right here to FR.
Thank all of you Freepers. You all are the best!
Joyce

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He needs to add staff!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I'm trying, I'm just not very good at it!

[livius]

So far I haven't seen any news about this in the Spanish press. Very interesting, and if nothing else, it makes one wonder what the Muslims have planned for us here in the US around election time.

[Sacajaweau]

Trying to connect dots: Two brothers of the Oregon 7-

Ahmed Bilal, and Muhammed Bilal.

Then there's Ernest James Ujamma aka Bilal Ahmed.

I'm starting to wonder about the attorney's middle name.

[joyce11111]

KATU 2 News - Portland, Oregon
www.katu.com

Portland Man Linked To Spain Terror Attacks

May 6, 2004

PORTLAND, ORE. - A Portland man was arrested by FBI agents Thursday as part of the investigation into the deadly train bombings in Spain, federal officials said.
The man, identified by Newsweek as Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield, a convert to Islam, was taken into custody on a material witness warrant, said a senior law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Newsweek is also reporting that Mayfield was arrested after Spanish authorities allegedly found his fingerprints on bomb-related evidence associated with the March 11 attack.

Mayfield's arrest is the first known in the United States with connections to the March 11 bombings in Madrid that took the lives of nearly 200 people.

The attack was Europe's worst since the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people.

Since that day, March 11, 2004 has become a day of infamy, which many compare to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.



An addition to taking Brandon Mayfield into custody, the FBI also searched his home, which he shares with his wife, the official said.

Neighbors tell KATU News that Brandon Mayfield and his wife have lived in the home for about a year and a half and are a friendly family.

"Yes, I would say friendly, not overly friendly, but not anything that you would be suspicious of," one neighbor, who lives directly next door to the Mayfields, told KATU News.



In addition to the raid at Brandon Mayfield's home, KATU News learned agents also searched the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton.

A woman who lives at the apartment complex next to the mosque was at her kitchen window this morning and says she saw the whole thing, and now cannot believe what she is hearing.

"It's horrifying. It's absolutely horrifying to look out the window and see that they could possibly be doing any kind of… I don't know," Aurora McCann told KATU News.

McCann was home for an early lunch when she saw the search from her kitchen window.



"I saw a couple of cop cars - one unmarked. I think it was black… it was either black or white… an unmarked car out here and a couple of people from the mosque - older gentlemen out there just talking."

Watch her story

At the time, McCann says she did not think much of the activity going on outside her window.

"They weren't engaging in conversation closely. I mean, they were pretty standoffish as far as, you know, discussing the topics, but I couldn't hear anything. I just assumed that it was maybe somebody that got pulled over," she said.

Hearing that it was actually part of an ongoing FBI investigation comes as a shock.

"This close - I mean the school bus stops right out here in front of this apartment building to pick up kids for school."

[blam]

"I'm trying, I'm just not very good at it!"

LOL. I didn't know how you would take that...I'm glad you have a sense of humor.