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"I was in custody for nearly three years and no one came up to me and said, ‘Hey, we think you were involved,’ " he said. "This has got me very upset. It is very unfair, and it’s ruining my life."
Abdullah’s San Diego attorney, Randall B. Hamud, said his client remains a virtual captive in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, where he is under constant surveillance by the government.
Abdullah was arrested as a material witness in late September 2001. He spent 32 months in U.S. jails and prisons as the FBI and the Justice Department investigated his ties to Almihdhar, Alhazmi and a network of immigrant friends, all of whom congregated around the Rabat mosque in a suburb of San Diego.
Commission investigators complained that they were never able to interview Abdullah before he was deported.
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