Talk:Robert Fuller (FBI agent)

Moving paragraph of Khadr testimony

In 2009, Fuller testified against Omar Khadr, recounting that he had traveled to Bagram Airbase on October 7, 2002 and showed the Canadian teenager a black-and-white photograph of Maher Arar, a Canadian who had been detained at a New York airport following a family vacation, and demanded to know if he recognised him. Khadr initially stated that he did not recognise Arar, but when further pressured by Fuller, confessed he had seen him at a Kabul safehouse run by Abu Musab al-Suri or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The youth's confession led to Arar's extraordinary rendition to Syria the following day, where he was tortured extensively for nearly a year before being returned to Canada, and suing both the Canadian and American governments. Fuller's testimony stirred controversy, since a Royal Commission studied the case and cleared Arar of all the American allegations.

I wanted to preserve the original paragraph before I started. Many All of the links are dead (some are subscriber only). Mnnlaxer (talk) 18:36, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

References

New York Observer

According to the New York Observer, Fuller played a role in the failure to apprehend 9-11 hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.

[A] New York F.B.I. agent, Robert Fuller, new to the International Terrorism Squad, was told to find al Mihdhar and al Hazmi after the C.I.A. finally shared the information that both were in the U.S. Another agent had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Agent Fuller had 30 days to find his targets. He scanned local New York databases, checked the New York hotel listed on al Mihdhar's July 2001 J.F.K. airport entry form as his destination and, when that failed to turn him up, let the matter drop. This was a fumbling of standard procedure: Al Mihdhar was being sought in connection with the F.B.I.'s criminal investigation of the Cole bombing, so consulting commercial databases was fair game.

This article is based on the 9/11 Commission Report, which has very little detail. A longer, more detailed narrative can be created with multiple sources. Copying it here to preserve it. Mnnlaxer (talk) 04:09, 27 September 2011 (UTC)