Report: Spanish police question fingerprint as that of Portland lawyer

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Report: Spanish police question fingerprint as that of Portland lawyer

04:56 PM PDT on Saturday, May 8, 2004


From Associated Press, CNN and KGW


MADRID, Spain - The newspaper El Pais reported Saturday that Spanish investigators have serious doubts as to whether the fingerprint found on a plastic bag tied to March 11 explosions on commuter trains is that of Portland-area lawyer Brandon Mayfield.


The report said Spanish forensics 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.


The plastic shopping bag was found inside a stolen van left near the train station from which three of the four bombed trains departed, an Interior Ministry official said.


The detonators in the bag were of the same kind used in the March 11 attacks, which killed 191 people, the government has said previously.


The van was found in Alcala de Henares, about 20 miles northeast of Madrid. Inside it police also found an Arabic-language cassette tape with verses from the Quran, police have said.

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Somebody has it out for this guy.

oh and it smelled to high heaven since forensics does not survive that well... or across teh world

The papers in the area had this man guilty until prove innocent! For the last two days I had to put up with papers and news reports talking about terrorism in the Northwest as running rampant, with an example of this mans' prints! The press in this country not only jumps to conclusions, they write the story up for as much as they can get!

somebody needs to get to the bottom of these things.

or anyody to do it