[BraveMan]

You need to see this. Check out also the threads on Grampa Dave's posts #9 & #12 . . .

These FReepers are all over this like white on rice . . .

[LayoutGuru2]

Madrid probe nets ex-Kansan
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/8614108.htm
...
...

Mayfield, 37, attended high school in Buhler and Halstead before going to Hutchinson Community College on a track scholarship, his mother said.

After serving in the Army, he studied law at Washburn University in Topeka and finished his degree in Oregon, where he now has his own small office and practices family law, she said.

AvNell Mayfield said FBI agents came to her home and asked questions about her son Thursday.

Brandon Mayfield has not left the country since he took a trip 10 years ago to visit his wife's family, his mother said. She thinks her son, who she said is a soft-spoken family man, is being treated unfairly because he is Muslim.

"He is not a militant person. He is very law-abiding, very quiet. He is a devout Muslim and goes to mosque," she said.

"This is an outrage."

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the latest on this thanks to a heads up by Shermy:

Her stepson went into the Army right after he graduated from high school, "because he felt that was the right thing to do," she said, and was posted overseas in Germany.

Mayfield met his Egyptian-born wife, Mona, while stationed near Tacoma, Wash., at Fort Lewis. Records from Washoe County, Nev., show the two were married in 1998. Mayfield converted to Islam after marriage, Alexander said.

Mayfield, who is 37, comes from a family of non-church-goers, Alexander told The Associated Press.

"When they started having children, he thought they should have some religion to have the family focus on," she said.

Leaders at the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton, Ore., said he would show up regularly for prayer on Fridays, and that he helped congregants who needed legal advice.