| A Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant for an Algerian whose fingerprints were found on a bag linked to the Madrid terror bombings and mistaken for those of an American lawyer. The international warrant seeks Daoud Ouhnane, who lived Spain before the train bombings that killed 191 people on March 11. His prints were found on a plastic bag containing detonators of the kind used in the attack. The bag was inside a stolen van found near the suburban train station from which three of the four trains bombed on March 11 departed. Despite doubts from Spain, the FBI had concluded the prints were those of Portland, Ore. lawyer Brandon Mayfield, a convert to Islam. He was arrested on May 6 and held as a material witness. Spanish forensics police made their own match on May 20 and Mayfield was released. The FBI acknowledged it erred and apologized to him. Issuing the warrant Friday, the judge also said DNA samples taken from a rural cottage where the bombs used in the attack were believed to have been assembled have also been traced to Ouhnane. |