Cryptome offers 2 court orders and 22 formerly sealed documents in the case of Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian national in the US to attend school, who was detained as a material witness based on a false accusation by a hotel guard of possessing an air-to-ground communcation device while staying in a hotel across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Higazy was also allegedly coerced by an FBI agent during a polygraph examination to admit possessing the device, and an investigation of this coercion is underway. http://cryptome.org/usa-v-higazy.htm (440KB) The documents were unsealed on August 14, 2002 in response to a request by reporter Ben Weiser of the New York Times. Related news reports in the New York Times, August 16, 2002, and the Village Voice, August 28, 2002 provide some of the information redacted. The Voice writes: It was dumb luck, not good police work, that freed Higazy. But the two FBI agents named in papers making the botched case against him are likely still investigating the September 11 attacks. The FBI's New York office would not comment on personnel questions, but a knowledgeable law enforcement source says neither of the agents -- Christopher Bruno and Vince Sullivan -- was ever disciplined or retrained.