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...week that it was seeking Gadahn for questioning conjured memories of John Walker Lindh, the young Californian convert to Islam who in 2002 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for serving in the Taliban army. But it also called to mind the cautionary tale of Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, another American convert, who just a week before had been released from jail after U.S. officials mistakenly tied him to the March bombings in Madrid. Had al-Qaeda found a gateway through an American recruit, or were authorities again overreaching...
RELEASED. BRANDON MAYFIELD, 37, U.S. lawyer arrested as a material witness in the March terrorist bombings in Madrid; in Portland, Ore. Pending a grand jury hearing, he cannot leave the state and must ask permission to leave his house...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...Though Mayfield was not charged with a crime, the father of three was jailed last week when authorities grew concerned that information was being leaked to the media. It is possible, U.S. officials say, that Mayfield's print ended up on the bag innocently. A lawyer who prays regularly at a Beaverton, Ore., mosque, Mayfield may have used the bag to send something to a contact in the U.S. or abroad. "The case is exceedingly flimsy," says Mayfield's lawyer Tom Nelson, adding that his client hasn't left the U.S. since...
...former client of Mayfield's connects him to a high-profile U.S. terrorism case. In a 2002 child-custody dispute, Mayfield represented Jeffrey Battle, one of the so-called Portland Seven, a suspected terrorist cell. Battle pleaded guilty last year to trying to join the Taliban to fight the U.S. in 2001. Some in the cell attended the same mosque as Mayfield, who converted to Islam in 1989 when he married a Muslim, according to his aunt Beth Vanetta of Halstead, Kans. Vanetta calls Mayfield a "fairly devout Muslim" and "not at all volatile ... the last person in the family...