{"id":3249,"date":"2001-11-09T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2001-11-09T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:01:47","slug":"fbi-suspect-failed-test-lie-detector-didnt-like-al-mrabhs-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/09\/fbi-suspect-failed-test-lie-detector-didnt-like-al-mrabhs-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FBI: Suspect Failed Test: Lie Detector Didn&#8217;t Like Al-Mrabh&#8217;s Answers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Tom Godfrey of the <em>Toronto Sun<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/TorontoNews\/ts.ts-11-09-0051.html\">reports<\/a> in this story carried by the Canadian website Canoe.ca. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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.<\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>Police said Al-Marabh&#8217;s polygraph questions related to Osama bin Laden&#8217;s al-Qaida terrorist network and the World Trade Center attacks. Officers said Al-Marabh was uncooperative and denied involvement in al-Qaida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The official leaking of pseudoscientific polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; 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 &#8220;uncooperative&#8221; failed to note that he did cooperate at least to the extent that he submitted to a polygraph interrogation. <em>Al-Marabh may or may not have been truthful, but the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;readings&#8221; of his polygraph charts are without diagnostic value.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-terrorism","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}