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To: ContemptofCourt
Something else I read today indicated that he was under suspicion prior to them checking his prints against the prints found in Spain.
29 posted on 05/07/2004 10:28:01 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: johnfrink
Just posted this:

Number Found at Spain Site Leads to Arrest (Madrid Train bombing )

And included in the article we have:

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On Thursday, the FBI arrested an American lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, 37, in the United States as a material witness in the case.

Spanish officials say at least one of Mayfield's fingerprints were found on a plastic bag containing detonators of the kind used in the attacks. The bag was found in a van left near the station from which three of the four trains bombed on March 11 departed. U.S. officials said a single print of Mayfield's was found on the bag.

The newspaper El Pais reported Saturday that Spanish investigators have serious doubts as to whether the print is Mayfield's. They have no record of him traveling to Spain recently, and experts found only eight points of similarity between the print and the one of Mayfield held in U.S. files because of his status as a former member of the Army. The FBI said it found 15 such points, El Pais said.

The Interior Ministry declined to comment on the report.

138 posted on 05/08/2004 12:06:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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