(Los Angeles Times)Tomas Alex Tizon - An Oregon lawyer arrested in connection with the March train bombings in Madrid was released Thursday after Spanish police identified fingerprints found on a bag of detonators as belonging to an Algerian. Police in Spain had expressed doubts early on about U.S. investigators' claims that one of the fingerprints on the bag belonged to Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim convert living in Portland. If the case is ultimately dropped, it will be a black eye for the government's anti-terrorism efforts.
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