{"id":3835,"date":"2002-12-13T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2021-03-06T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T10:18:54","slug":"abdallah-higazy-sues-fbi-polygrapher-michael-templeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/13\/abdallah-higazy-sues-fbi-polygrapher-michael-templeton\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdallah Higazy Sues FBI Polygrapher Michael Templeton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Associated Press writer Devlin Barrett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/templates\/misc\/printstory.jsp?slug=sns%2Dap%2Dattacks%2Daviation%2Dradio1213dec12&amp;section=%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation%2Fwire\">reports<\/a> in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210306094617if_\/https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/wrongly-jailed-student-sues-fbi-agent-hotel-over-9-11-aviation-radio-probe\">&#8220;Wrongly Jailed Student Sues Agent, Hotel Over 9\/11 Aviation Radio Probe.&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>NEW YORK &#8212; An Egyptian student wrongly jailed for a month as a suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks filed a $20 million lawsuit Thursday against the FBI agent who extracted his false confession.<\/p><p>Abdallah Higazy, 31, also sued the Hilton hotel chain and a former security guard for telling authorities an aviation radio was found inside Higazy&#8217;s hotel room overlooking the World Trade Center soon after the terrorist attacks.<\/p><p>After he was taken into custody in December 2001, Higazy denied the radio was his, then &#8220;confessed&#8221; during a polygraph exam after Higazy said the agent threatened and intimidated him.<\/p><p>He was charged with lying to investigators but cleared days later when the radio&#8217;s true owner, a pilot, returned to the hotel to retrieve the device.<\/p><p>&#8220;I want a public apology, a written apology,&#8221; Higazy said Thursday.<\/p><p>Former hotel security guard Ronald Ferry pleaded guilty to lying to investigators when he told them he found the radio, which is used to communicate with commercial airline pilots, in a safe inside Higazy&#8217;s room.<\/p><p>Higazy&#8217;s lawyer, Robert Dunn, said they were considering filing additional claims against the federal government for its handling of the case.<\/p><p>The suit claims Michael Templeton, the agent who administered the lie-detector test, coerced the false confession from Higazy by threatening to make his family&#8217;s life in Egypt &#8220;a living hell.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press writer Devlin Barrett reports in an article titled, &#8220;Wrongly Jailed Student Sues Agent, Hotel Over 9\/11 Aviation Radio Probe.&#8221; Excerpt: NEW YORK &#8212; An Egyptian student wrongly jailed for a month as a suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks filed a $20 million lawsuit Thursday against the FBI agent who extracted his false &#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":[410,321,191,427,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-abdallah-higazy","8":"tag-false-confession","9":"tag-interrogation","10":"tag-michael-templeton","11":"tag-terrorism","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}