The driver was Ismail Elbarasse and detained on an outstanding material witness warrant issued in Chicago in connection with fundraising for Hamas.

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Officials would not confirm that Al Salmi had been held on a material witness warrant, though other suspects arrested in the investigation and subsequently flown to New York for questioning were held as material witnesses.

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The plaintiff, Abdullah Al-Kidd, alleges that prosecutors never had any intention of calling him as a witness and submitted a false affidavit for the purpose of persuading a federal magistrate to issue a material witness warrant.

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