USA v. Abdallah Higazy
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Fri Aug 30 08:26:12 PDT 2002
Cryptome offers 2 court orders and 22 formerly sealed documents
in the case of Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian national in the US to
attend school, who was detained as a material witness based
on a false accusation by a hotel guard of possessing an air-to-ground
communcation device while staying in a hotel across from the World
Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Higazy was also allegedly
coerced by an FBI agent during a polygraph examination to admit
possessing the device, and an investigation of this coercion is
underway.
http://cryptome.org/usa-v-higazy.htm (440KB)
The documents were unsealed on August 14, 2002 in response to a
request by reporter Ben Weiser of the New York Times.
Related news reports in the New York Times, August 16, 2002, and the
Village Voice, August 28, 2002 provide some of the information redacted.
The Voice writes:
It was dumb luck, not good police work, that freed Higazy. But the two
FBI agents named in papers making the botched case against him are
likely still investigating the September 11 attacks. The FBI's New York
office would not comment on personnel questions, but a knowledgeable
law enforcement source says neither of the agents -- Christopher Bruno
and Vince Sullivan -- was ever disciplined or retrained.
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