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	Brandon Mayfield - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brandon Mayfield (born 1966) is an attorney at law with a practice in Washington County, Oregon and is best known for being erroneously linked to the 11 March, 2004 Madrid attacks.
		Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Mayfield was concerned for the safety of his children and wife, and according to his father, he suspected that he was under surveillance by the federal authorities.
		The FBI then arrested Mayfield, and he was at first held at a Multnomah County jail under a false name; he was later transferred to an unidentified location.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Brandon_Mayfield (570 words)

	The Daily News - Mayfield struggles to sort out his ordeal
		Mayfield, who hadn't traveled outside the United States in more than a decade, was arrested May 6 and held as a material witness for two weeks until Spanish police announced that the print belonged to an Algerian.
		Mayfield converted to Islam in the late 1980s, partly because his wife was Muslim and also because he was attracted to the faith's guidelines for living.
		Mayfield described himself as a very private person, and that the only reason he was talking was to raise the public's awareness of such laws as the material witness statute, under which he was detained.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2004/05/30/oregon/news02.prt (1287 words)

	More Reasons for Brandon Mayfield's Incarceration [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brandon Mayfield is the Portland, Oregon lawyer and Muslim convert who spent two weeks in jail, May 6-20, as a result of a mis-identified fingerprint seeming to link him to the Madrid bombings on March 11, 2004.
		In reply, Mayfield's lawyers said agents targeted Mayfield because he is Muslim, because his wife is Egyptian-born, because the family attends a mosque, and because Mayfield had connections to one of the "Portland Seven" terrorists.
		The OIG concluded that Mayfield's religion was not the sole or primary cause of the FBI's failure to question the original misidentification and catch its error.
	www.danielpipes.org /blog/330 (1791 words)

	Lawyer wrongly arrested in bombings: 'We lived in 1984' - CNN.com
		Brandon Mayfield was arrested in Portland on a material witness warrant in May 2004, less than two months after the bombings.
		Brandon Mayfield and his family for the suffering caused by the FBI's misidentification of Mr.
		Mayfield, including his arrest as a material witness in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the execution of search warrants and other court orders in the Mayfield family home and in Mr.
	www.cnn.com /2006/LAW/11/29/mayfield.suit/index.html (699 words)

	OregonLive.com: Four Brandon Mayfield stories
		Mayfield was strongly opposed to the USA Patriot Act and U.S. foreign policy related to the treatment of Muslims and discussed his frust States knew about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in advance but ignored warnings to lay the foundation for war, his brother said.
		Mayfield, a Portland area lawyer and Muslim convert, was cleared of any connection to the terror attack after a pair of agents traveled over the weekend to Madrid to examine the fingerprint and concluded hours later that it was not Mayfield's.
		Mayfield's wife, Mona, would later tell reporters that she saw footprints in the carpeting and that blinds in the home were not in their usual position.
	oregonianextra.blogs.oregonlive.com /default.asp?item=343081 (6269 words)

	A Multitude of Errors: The Brandon Mayfield Case
		Brandon Bieri Mayfield, a 37-year-old civil and immigration lawyer, practicing in Portland, Oregon, is arrested as a material witness with respect to a federal grand jury’s investigation into that bombing.
		Mayfield was provided with copies of the Application for Material Witness Warrant, the affidavit in support of the application (the “Werder Affidavit”), the arrest warrant, and a subpoena directing him to appear before the grand jury on June 1.
		Mayfield protested his innocence, stating repeatedly that the latent fingerprint was not his, and requesting that he be released so that he could maintain his legal practice.
	www.nacdl.org /public.nsf/01c1e7698280d20385256d0b00789923/9090373de4fa9c7d85256f3300551e42?OpenDocument (5986 words)

	portland imc - 2006.11.30 - Brandon Mayfield Vindication: FBI Terrorism is Over the Top
		Mayfield was topping the FBI's list of "terror" suspects in the wake of the 2004 Madrid bombings...even after Spanish authorities told FBI agents they had the wrong man. Using such shabby "evidence" as a homework assignment written by one of Mr.
		Mayfield's children, which they acquired via sneak and peek raids of his home, the FBI and the US Government harassed, hounded, and illegally imprisoned Mr.
		In filing his lawsuit against the FBI and the US Government, Mayfield decried the secret searches of his home, the tapping of his telephones, and the gross violations of his and his family's privacy that were carried out by FBI agents.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/11/350058.shtml (210 words)

	U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed - New York Times
		Brandon Mayfield and his family for the suffering caused” by his mistaken arrest, the government’s apology began.
		Mayfield said he and his wife, an Egyptian immigrant, and their three children still suffered from the scars left by the government’s surveillance of him and his jailing for two weeks in May 2004.
		Mayfield to the terrorist bombings in Madrid through a mistaken identification of a print taken from a plastic bag containing detonator caps that was found at the scene of the bombings.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/11/30/us/30settle.html?ex=1322542800&en=a182c83894570961&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (983 words)

	B12 Partners Solipsism: Brandon Mayfield
		Mayfield's prints were in the F.B.I.'s central database of more than 44 million prints because they had been taken when he joined the military, where he served for eight years before being honorably discharged as a second lieutenant.
		Mayfield's potential ties to Muslim terrorists, which they included in the affidavit they presented to the federal judge who ordered his arrest and detention.
		Mayfield had never been to Spain, he said, and the last time he was out of the country was more than 10 years ago, when he was posted in Germany with the Army and, separately, visited Egypt, his wife's native country.
	www.b12partners.net /2004/06/brandon-mayfield.html (744 words)

	Northwest Progressive Institute Archive: Mayfield settles with feds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brandon Mayfield, the Portland-area attorney who was wrongfully detained in the Madrid train bombing case, has reached a settlement in his lawsuit against the feds.
		Under the terms of the settlement announced today, Brandon Mayfield of Portland, Ore., will also be able to continue to pursue a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act antiterrorism law, which played a role in Mayfield's case.
		The monetary payment amounts to an embarrassing admission of wrongdoing by the FBI, which arrested and detained Mayfield as a material witness in May 2004 after FBI examiners wrongly linked him to a portion of a fingerprint found on a bag of detonators during the investigation of the Madrid commuter train bombings.
	www.nwprogressive.org /weblog/2006/11/mayfield-settles-with-feds.html (437 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Portland, Oregon, attorney Brandon Mayfield was mistakenly detained by the FBI in connection with the bombing attacks in Madrid after authorities mismatched fingerprints found in Spain.
		Mayfield and his family for the hardships that this matter has caused," a statement from the federal law enforcement agency said.
		Mayfield said he feared for his safety when inmates began to recognize him on the nightly news.
	www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1240 (965 words)

	train bombing. A mistaken fingerprint. Secret surveillance. Brandon Mayfield and the problems to come for the Patriot ...
		Despite the FBI's insistence that the Mayfield episode was just a could-happen-to-anybody fingerprint mistake, it takes a lot to make the federal government part with $2 million and an assurance that it's OK for the recipient to sue it again.
		And yet Mayfield got it, suggesting the kind of leverage his case carries -- and the questions still to be answered.
		The feds insist Mayfield's Muslim identity and connections were not known when the original fingerprint identification was made and had nothing to do with the mistake, and they cite the investigation by Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/mayfield_mistaken_fingerprint_problems_for_patriot_act.htm (1037 words)

	The One True b!X's PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE: Brandon Mayfield To Speak At City Club Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mayfield, of course, is the local lawyer mistakenly identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as being the source of a fingerprints left...
		Mayfield, of course, is the local lawyer mistakenly identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as being the source of a fingerprints left on a bag tied to the terrorist train bombings in Spain.
		Mayfield will be joined by Steve Wax, the Federal public defender who represented him, and a "representative of the Federal government" has been invited to participate as well.
	communique.portland.or.us /04/06/brandon_mayfield_to_speak_at_city_club_forum (339 words)

	Now Free, Attorney Brandon Mayfield Turns Furious
		Mayfield said that he was “often manacled and chained” while imprisoned, threatened by at least one prison guard and denied the opportunity to visit with his family.
		Mayfield, a Kansas-born convert to Islam who runs a small family law practice in Beaverton, OR, was arrested May 6 and detained as a material witness in the investigation of the Madrid, Spain, train bombing that killed 191 people and injured more than 2,000.
		Mayfield emerged that day from the courthouse visibly shaken, while his Egyptian-born wife, Mona, flashed a continuous smile and their three children huddled around their parents’ legs.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/July_Aug_2004/0407068.html (800 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Bungled fingerprints expose problems at FBI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The FBI erroneously matched this print, of Mayfield's left index finger, to a print later lifted from a plastic bag of detonators near the scene of the Madrid train bombings.
		The Mayfield mistake "is certainly not the death of fingerprints," said Pat Wertheim, a top fingerprint expert based in Arizona who has trained examiners for years.
		Brandon Mayfield of Portland was detained but later cleared.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001949987_fingerprint07m.html (2021 words)

	U.S. Settles Suit Filed by Ore. Lawyer - washingtonpost.com
		Mayfield will be able to continue pursuing his legal challenge to the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law, which was used to obtain his personal records while he was under investigation.
		Mayfield's lawsuit alleged that his civil rights had been violated and that he was arrested because he is a Muslim convert who had represented some defendants in terrorism-related cases.
		Mayfield said in a statement yesterday that he was threatened with the death penalty while in custody, that he and his family were targeted "because of our Muslim religion," and that he looks forward "to the day when the Patriot Act is declared unconstitutional."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901179.html (841 words)

	FBI Admits Fingering Wrong Man - May 26, 2004
		MAY 26--The FBI apologized yesterday to the Oregon lawyer arrested and jailed in connection with the March 11 Madrid bombings, saying that the agency's identification of a key smudged fingerprint supposedly linking Brandon Mayfield to the Spanish plot was faulty.
		The lawyer, 37, was arrested as a material witness after the FBI detailed its case against Mayfield in a confidential affidavit submitted to a federal judge.
		In addition to the botched fingerprint analysis, other "probable cause" cited in the FBI document included Mayfield's handling of a child custody case involving a defendant in the Portland Seven terrorism case and several trips made by the lawyer--a convert to Islam--to a Beaverton mosque.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/0525041mayfield1.html (216 words)

	Lawyer Is Cleared Of Ties to Bombings (washingtonpost.com)
		A federal judge yesterday cleared Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield of any connection to the March terrorist bombings in Madrid, saying the FBI had erroneously matched his fingerprint to a latent print found on a bag of bomb detonators shortly after the attack.
		The FBI apologized to Mayfield and his family "for the hardships that this matter has caused." It blamed the error on similarities between the fingerprints and the poor quality of digital fingerprint images provided by Spanish authorities.
		Mayfield was arrested on a material witness warrant May 6 and jailed for two weeks.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A53196-2004May24.html (651 words)

	[Brandon Mayfield Case:] "If You Are Muslim, You Are Suspect" - article by Daniel Pipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mayfield declared on release; "I have been singled out and discriminated against, I feel, as a Muslim." His father Bill concurred: "They picked him out because they wanted someone who fit this profile.
		Mayfield volunteered to represent Jeffrey Leon Battle — who subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to levy war against America and was sentenced to 18 years in prison — in a custody dispute over his then-6-year-old son.
		Mayfield 's political profile fits that of many disaffected, America-hating terrorists: he strongly opposes the Patriot Act, inveighs against American foreign policy related to Muslim countries, and is "particularly angered," according to his brother Kent, by close U.S. relations with Israel.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/1853 (822 words)

	FOXNews.com - FBI Apologizes to Oregon Lawyer - U.S. & World
		Mayfield, a 37-year-old convert to Islam, sharply criticized the government, calling his time behind bars "humiliating" and "embarrassing" and saying he was targeted because of his faith.
		Mayfield and his family for the hardships that this matter has caused," the bureau said in a statement.
		As additional evidence in support of Mayfield's arrest, the FBI pointed to Mayfield's attendance at a local mosque, his advertising legal services in a publication owned by a man suspected to have links to terrorism, and a telephone call his wife placed to a branch of an Islamic charity with suspected terrorist ties.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,120783,00.html (1112 words)

	Brandon Mayfield at AllExperts
		The United States FBI arrested him Thursday, May 6 2004 at his offices in West Slope, an unincorporated suburb of Portland, Oregon, as a material witness in connection with the Madrid attacks.
		The FBI then arrested Mayfield in a manner similar to the then-recent Mike Hawash case, under a material witness warrant rather than under charge, and held him with limited access to family and legal counsel.
		He was at first held at a Multnomah County jail under a false name; he was later transferred to an unidentified location.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/br/brandon_mayfield.htm (716 words)

	Democracy Now! \| EXCLUSIVE... Falsely Jailed Attorney Brandon Mayfield Discusses His Case After Feds Award $2 Million ...
		Brandon Mayfield sued the FBI alleging that his civil rights had been violated and that he was arrested in part because he is a Muslim convert.
		Mayfield, who is a former Army lieutenant, sued the FBI alleging that his civil rights had been violated and that he was arrested in part because he is a Muslim convert.
		BRANDON MAYFIELD: Okay, my response to that is, Hamdallah, thank God that I was released, and God bless the Spanish police and their good police work.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/11/30/1452233 (2740 words)

	Court dismisses case against Mayfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He then answered "yes" when asked if the FBI was apologizing to the Mayfield family, and said the agency would "reach out to (the family) and seek an opportunity," to apologize directly.
		Mayfield's attorney, Public Defender Steven Wax, said the FBI had told him the error was the first ever by the agency's fingerprint analysis group.
		Wax said Mayfield believes he was not only arrested, but also subjected to so-called "sneak and peak" searches where agents enter a home with no obligation to immediately tell the owner.
	www.truthinjustice.org /mayfield.htm (859 words)

	Why Ashcroft Must Go- by Justin Raimondo
		Mayfield called 911 when it happened a second time, and he found a man's footprint on the rug.
		By mid-April, the Spanish authorities were saying there was no trace of Mayfield's presence in their country, and also disagreed with the FBI's contention that the prints found on a detonator bag matched Mayfield's.
		As revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib continue to cast doubts on the Defense Department's conduct of the war in Iraq, the case of Brandon Mayfield — the Oregon lawyer jailed for supposedly aiding the Madrid bombers — is sharpening debate on the Justice Department's pursuit of the War on Terror.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=2667 (2468 words)

	Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Ex-Terror Suspect Wins Out Over FBI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brandon Mayfield, who sued after he was falsely linked to the Madrid train bombings, described his experiences as an Orwellian nightmare where “an act that strips you of your civil rights could be called a Patriot Act.”
		Brandon Mayfield, the Portland-area lawyer wrongly linked to the deadly Madrid, Spain, train bombings of 2004, accepted a $2 million settlement Wednesday in his lawsuit against the federal government, setting up a legal showdown over the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act.
		Mayfield’s case is a slamdunk in the Supreme Court.
	www.truthdig.com /eartotheground/item/20061130_ex_terror_suspect_wins_out_over_fbi (1810 words)

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