{"id":3404,"date":"2002-02-18T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2002-02-18T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"jordanian-student-testifies-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/18\/jordanian-student-testifies-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jordanian Student Testifies in Court&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Associated Press correspondent Larry Neumeister <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020505172854\/http:\/\/news.lycos.com\/news\/forms\/printstory.asp?section=Breaking&amp;storyId=337469\">reports<\/a> on Osama Awadallah&#8217;s courtroom testimony. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A Jordanian student testified Monday that FBI agents accused him of being one of the Sept. 11 terrorists after saying he failed a lie detector test.<\/p><p>Osama Awadallah, 21, said agents told him he would be freed but after he&#8217;d completed a voluntary polygraph test Sept. 21, they said it proved he&#8217;d lied and had advance knowledge of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center .<\/p><p>&#8220;`You did it. You were one of the terrorists,&#8221;&#8216; Awadallah said he was told by one agent. &#8220;`You knew they were going to do it.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p><p>The student at Grossmont College, in El Cajon, Calif., who is free on $500,000 bail, said he denied being a terrorist and responded: &#8220;I tell the truth all the time.&#8221;<\/p><p>On Saturday, FBI polygrapher J. Antonio Falcon testified that the results of Awadallah&#8217;s polygraph examination &#8220;appeared to be consistent with deception.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When FBI polygrapher J. Antonio Falcon testified that Awadallah&#8217;s polygraph examination &#8220;appeared to be consistent with deception,&#8221; he made a claim that has no scientific basis. Because polygraphy lacks both standardization and control, it can have no validity or diagnostic value.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press correspondent Larry Neumeister reports on Osama Awadallah&#8217;s courtroom testimony. Excerpt: NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A Jordanian student testified Monday that FBI agents accused him of being one of the Sept. 11 terrorists after saying he failed a lie detector test. Osama Awadallah, 21, said agents told him he would be freed but after &#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-3404","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\/3404","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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}