On May 6, 2004, FBI agents descended on his law office, his home, and
the family farm in Kansas to search for evidence that Mayfield was a
terror mastermind. Media leaks let it be known that he was responsible
for the bombing of the Madrid train station in March 2004, which killed
191 people. The evidence was said to be a fingerprint found on a
plastic bag of detonators at the scene. Federal agents threw Mayfield
into the Portland city lockup not as a defendant but as a "material
witness."

But not only had Mayfield been far from Madrid at the time ...

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On May 6, 2004, FBI agents descended on his law office, his home, and
the family farm in Kansas to search for evidence that Mayfield was a
terror mastermind. Media leaks let it be known that he was responsible
for the bombing of the Madrid train station in March 2004, which killed
191 people. The evidence was said to be a fingerprint found on a
plastic bag of detonators at the scene. Federal agents threw Mayfield
into the Portland city lockup not as a defendant but as a "material
witness."

But not only had Mayfield been far from Madrid at the time of the
bombing, he hadn't even left the United States since 1994. The FBI,
however, insisted that his Army fingerprint matched a digital photo of
the print from the Madrid bag. The Spanish police, who had the original
fingerprint, were never convinced that Mayfield's was a match. But that
didn't stop the FBI from swearing to a judge that it was.

In the weeks before his arrest, Mayfield's wife, Mona, repeatedly came
home to find the deadbolt locked on their house, even though no one in
their family ever used it. Sometimes she would feel an eerie sense that
someone was in the house. She would walk through their home calling the
family cat, Mayfield recalls, "not because she wanted the cat to come,
but because she wanted to let any intruders know she was coming." In
general, the entire family began to suspect that someone was going in
and out when they were not at home. Mayfield, who had heard of federal
investigations among the Muslims of Portland, suspected it was law
enforceme...

In the weeks before his arrest, Mayfield's wife, Mona, repeatedly came
home to find the deadbolt locked on their house, even though no one in
their family ever used it. Sometimes she would feel an eerie sense that
someone was in the house. She would walk through their home calling the
family cat, Mayfield recalls, "not because she wanted the cat to come,
but because she wanted to let any intruders know she was coming." In
general, the entire family began to suspect that someone was going in
and out when they were not at home. Mayfield, who had heard of federal
investigations among the Muslims of Portland, suspected it was law
enforcement. "If it was a burglar," he recalls thinking, "why didn't
they take anything?"