{"id":3402,"date":"2002-02-17T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2002-02-17T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"fbi-agent-says-jordanian-student-was-deceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/17\/fbi-agent-says-jordanian-student-was-deceptive\/","title":{"rendered":"“FBI Agent Says Jordanian Student Was Deceptive”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associated Press correspondent Frank Eltman reports<\/a> on the case of Osama Awadallah, who faces perjury charges stemming at least in part from an FBI polygraph interrogation. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK (AP) – An FBI agent testified Saturday that a Jordanian student with alleged links to two of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers was deceptive during a polygraph examination that was given before his arrest.<\/p>

Osama Awadallah voluntarily took the polygraph test while being questioned by FBI agents over a two-day period in September, agent Frank Teixiera said in federal court.<\/p>

“He stated that he was quite certain that he would pass the polygraph,” Teixiera said.<\/p>

But Awadallah’s answers about whether he had any knowledge of people planning to commit acts against the United States , or whether he had any knowledge about anyone planning the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, led agents to believe there were “inconsistencies and discrepancies” in Awadallah’s story, Teixiera said.<\/p>

Also Saturday, FBI polygrapher J. Antonio Falcon said the results of Awadallah’s polygraph examination “appeared to be consistent with deception.”<\/p>

Falcon said he administered the polygraph to Awadallah, who had read and signed a release for the examination and a list of his Miranda rights. The tone of the FBI’s interactions with Awadallah turned from cooperative to combative after the polygraph examination, Falcon said.<\/p>

The testimony came on the second day of a hearing on whether evidence against Awadallah should be thrown out.<\/p>

Awadallah, 21, a student at Grossmont College in El Cajon, Calif., is charged with twice lying to a grand jury in New York . If convicted, he could get 10 years in prison.<\/p>

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered the evidentiary hearing after suggesting last month that Awadallah “may have been the victim of coercion and intimidation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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