PORTLAND, Ore., May 25 (UPI) -- The FBI has apologized to Brandon Mayfield, a Portland, Ore., attorney and Muslim convert, for connecting him with the Madrid train bombing.
The agency said it erroneously identified Mayfield's fingerprint on a bag of detonators found near the site of the deadly March 11 terror attack in Spain, the Portland Oregonian reported Tuesday.
Mayfield was arrested as a material witness and jailed for two weeks. He was officially freed Monday.
As a material witness, Mayfield said he should not have been housed with criminals and treated like one.
"I am just now starting not to shake," he said.
Mayfield, who lives in Aloha, said his detention damaged his reputation, his law practice and his family. He said he was targeted because of his religious beliefs by a government overzealous in its fight against terror.
"I am an American Muslim," he said. "I have been singled out and discriminated against, I feel, as a Muslim."
