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Report: FBI Problems Led to Wrongful Terror Arrest
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| 01/06/2006
| Jason Ryan
Posted on 01/06/2006 5:09:37 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Ramius
The FBI had a recent muslim convert, an attorney with close affiliation and contact with terrorist organizations-- who's fingerprints (at the time) appeared to match fingerprints left in the Madrid bombing. Not according to the article. They had someone whose fingerprints did not match, but they arrested him anyway.
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posted on
01/06/2006 6:46:27 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Inyokern
heh. Probly so.
Truth is, before 9-11 with the actual hijackers there were darn few dots to connect. None of them had done anything all that noteworthy, let alone illegal. The things that look like dots now are only so in hindsight.
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posted on
01/06/2006 6:46:29 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: Doctor Stochastic
According to the article:
Specifically, the unusual similarity between Mayfield's fingerprint and the fingerprint on a bag of detonators found in Madrid confused several fingerprint experts. FBI laboratory examiners identified Mayfield's fingerprint as matching a print found on a bag of detonators connected to the Madrid commuter train attack, which killed 191 people and injured almost 1,500. A court-appointed fingerprint expert also misidentified the prints.
The misidentification wasn't found until later. When he was arrested, it was in part because they believed they had a matching fingerprint. He was not arrested in spite of some knowledge that fingerprints didn't match.
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posted on
01/06/2006 6:51:26 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: Ramius
No use argueing with you. You are one of the people I was talking about in my first post. You have proven it over and over and removed all doubt.
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posted on
01/06/2006 6:57:15 PM PST
by
Supernatural
(All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
To: Supernatural
Nice not talking to you then. Let's get together and not talk again real soon. :-)
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posted on
01/06/2006 6:58:36 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: Ramius
The things that look like dots now are only so in hindsight.Without hindsight, they would look like racial profiling and harassment.
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posted on
01/06/2006 7:02:49 PM PST
by
Inyokern
To: Mulder
Yep, just wait until Pres Hellary and AG Schumer are in charge!
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posted on
01/06/2006 7:14:40 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Ramius
""he was the victim of religious profiling." Duh! It's called common sense moron. We are not quite ready to commit national suicide yet. Who writes this crap? Oh yeah. The enemy.
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posted on
01/06/2006 7:25:12 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Dig deeper, more ammo.)
To: Mulder; Travis McGee
Amen brother. You are one of the few that get it while the others bleat away.
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posted on
01/06/2006 8:00:40 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: Supernatural
Didn't you read the story before you posted? Is that a trick question?
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