Tom Godfrey of the Toronto Sun reports in this story carried by the Canadian website Canoe.ca. Excerpt:
American authorities say Parkdale refugee claimant Nabil Al-Marabh has failed a lie detector test about his activities with al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
U.S. authorities said dozens of al-Qaida suspects were given polygraph tests by the FBI after being picked up following the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Police said Al-Marabh’s polygraph questions related to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network and the World Trade Center attacks. Officers said Al-Marabh was uncooperative and denied involvement in al-Qaida.
The official leaking of pseudoscientific polygraph “test” results to smear suspects is a common facet of polygraph abuse, and is a key reason why anyone accused of a crime should refuse to submit to polygraphic interrogation. The officers who characterized Al-Marabh as “uncooperative” failed to note that he did cooperate at least to the extent that he submitted to a polygraph interrogation. Al-Marabh may or may not have been truthful, but the FBI’s “readings” of his polygraph charts are without diagnostic value.