American Lawyer Arrested in Connection with Madrid Bombings-more info!

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=75FD7DF4-E3B8-43B2-B1862644A8D25514

"Officials said that Brandon Mayfield was taken into custody Thursday in Portland, in the western U.S. state of Oregon after Spanish authorities reported finding what may be his fingerprints on a bag containing bomb-related materials. Agents also searched his home.

The 37-year-old man apparently was detained under a material witness warrant, which allows authorities to hold him indefinitely without charges while they carry out their investigation."

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"Mr. Mayfield, a former U.S. Army officer , converted to Islam in 1989. Authorities say he has been under around-the-clock FBI surveillance for some time."

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"Mr. Mayfield represented one of the chief defendants in the so-called "Portland Seven" terror case in a custody battle. Six members of a Portland terrorist cell pleaded guilty in October of plotting to fight with the Taliban against the United States in Afghanistan."

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makes my head spin, it does...

-an army officer-no details of service
-converted to islam- was that the army infiltrating islam or islam infiltrating the army or coincidence
-under "around-the-clock fbi surveillance for some time" -no details of the length
-defended a seperately a member "portland terrorist cell" which later "pleaded guilty in October of plotting to fight with the Taliban against the United States in Afghanistan." No indication if his client was one of the majority who plead guilty.
-and is now being held in "indefinite detention" for alledgedly handling a bomb that killed almost two hundred people in Madrid.

too unbelievable for a movie script certainly

fingerprints from a portland lawyer found in madrid. how did they make the connection? i guess they had a record of his fingerprints from their "surveillance"? strange.

from when he was in the military. His name and fingerprints probably were already red flagged, and when they found fingerprints and no person there, they ran the prints through the big Terror-Catcher 2004 and matched his.

i dont' know.

and what do you mean by "and when they found fingerprints and no person there"

just curious. thanks.

Its a form of identification, in case of death or other things.

What I meant by the fingerprint comment, was that they found fingerprints in Spain, and no one there matched them, so they took the prints and ran it through the TerrorCatcher 2004 to see if they had a match.

the TerrorCatcher 2004? All the prints (if they have them) of the red flagged people in the US or world. They've gotta be able to catch them t'rr'rists.

Supposed to make the notion of the unknown soldier obsolete.

one other nationally known murderer... I cannot think of who it is... a serial killer who was also in the military, was also employed as a medic, and sent to germany.

Very, very strange. Very Manchurian.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3692741.stm

"EArlier this year in Portland, the last of six men and a woman were sentenced on charges of conspiring to wage war against the United States by helping Al Qaeda dn the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.

Mayfield represented one of those people, Jeffrey Leon Battle, in a custody case involving Battle's son. Lawa enforcement officials did not know of any contacts between Mayfield and the other Portland terrorism defendants."


So ... this is the case they have??!!

US lawyer arrested over Madrid bombings
7 May 2004

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Mayfield wife, Mona, said her husband was "a good man, a good father, a good husband".

"It's just unfair. It's unfair to myself and it is unfair to my children," she said.

The couple have two sons aged 10 and 15, and a 12-year-old daughter.
Her husband, a former Army officer, was born in the small Oregon coastal community of Coos Bay, she said.

He converted to Islam in 1989, she said, and attends a mosque in the nearby town of Beaverton that was reportedly searched by FBI agents yesterday.
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More:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/10634139?source=PA

So he could have handled paperwork involving Madrid bombers? thus the fingerprints?

For example maybe a suspect or associate in Madrid bombings tried to immigrate to US at some time and he handled their passport.

http://oip.uoregon.edu/documents/iss/pdf/visamatters/lawyer.pdf


Patrick Schoeb

everything of substance in the article is already covered in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=536124