US lawyer linked to Madrid bombings

THE fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested over the Madrid terror bombings were found on bag containing detonators of the kind used in the March attack, the Spanish government said yesterday.

Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, from Oregon, was arrested by the FBI in the US on Thursday.

The detonators were found in a plastic bag inside a stolen van after the March 11 rail bombings. The van had been left near the suburban Madrid station from which three of the four bombed trains departed.