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  • FBI admits it gave files to translator accidentally

    03/28/2005 1:40:34 PM PST · by Straight Vermonter · 18 replies · 497+ views
    AP ^ | 3/26/05 | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
    BOSTON (AP) -- The FBI admitted Saturday it accidentally gave classified documents back to the American translator who pleaded guilty to taking them from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, who was released from jail earlier this month, contacted the FBI's Boston office Tuesday after he realized agents had inadvertently given him the compact disc containing the secret files along with his personal property. Mehalba had the disc in his possession for only a "matter of hours" before the FBI retrieved it, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ricciuti. "Someone in the bureau obviously made a...