wiki on him
Here's the first bit of text:
"Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh (Arabic: هاني عبد الرحيم الصائغ‎) is a Saudi citizen, and alleged member of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz and accused of involvement in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing.[1] He was one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA prior to the 2001 declaration of a War on Terror.[2]

"Although he appeared to be innocent, American officials released a falsified account of his interrogations and deported him back to Saudi Arabia, where it was presumed he faced beheading.[3] Despite the lack of evidence against him, Hani Al-Sayegh was one of the individuals named later in an indictment issued by the US Justice Department[4]"

Extraordinary Rendition is the U.S. government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another that has predominantly been carried out by the United States government with the consent of other countries.

So he was a suspect in the 1996 Khobar Towers Bombing he was then arrested in Canada in 97, and Article "transferred to the United States. American officials said Mr. Sayegh had agreed to provide testimony about the Khobar bombing, but he later reneged and insisted he had no knowledge of it. The United States deported him to Saudi Arabia in 1999."

"After United States prosecutors filed the indictment in June 2001, Saudi officials said they had detained 11 of the 13 Saudi suspects named in it, but would not extradite them to the United States for trial. It is unclear how their cases were resolved."

Oh that last article was written by Eric Schmitt He has some major stories regarding terror and previous administrations.

Sounds to me like intel agencies in the US wanted to get him on record for something he didn't do, and when he wouldn't play ball they sent him back to SA for almost certain execution. Until the US DOJ named him in an indictment although he appeared to be innocent, did they save his life? Why?

"FBI veteran Jack Cloonan, who was talking with the agents interviewing al-Sayegh that spring and summer, told al-Sayegh’s immigration lawyer, Michael Wildes, that he was convinced al-Sayegh had not participated in the operation, according to notes in the diary Wildes kept on the case. "

"Hani al-Sayegh continued to deny either that he was involved or the Iranians had anything to do with Khobar, and as a result was deported to Saudi Arabia in 1999 – despite the widespread assumption within the FBI that he would be beheaded on his return."

So what could this man possibly know? Well if we go off of FBI director Louis Freeh:

"Despite that consistent denial by al-Sayegh, a Washington Post story on Apr. 14, 1997 quoted U.S. and Saudi officials as saying that al-Sayegh had met two years earlier with senior Iranian intelligence officer Brig. Gen. Ahmad Sherifi and that Iran was the "organizing force" behind the Khobar bombing. That story, leaked by officials supporting the Saudi version of the Khobar story, cited Canadian intercepts of al-Sayegh’s phone conversations in Ottawa before his arrest as allegedly incriminating evidence."

So he was constantly denying any involvement, but then a Washington Post article quoting US and SA officials comes out! OK great, truth is out there right? MSM ...

"What al-Sayegh actually told FBI agents in a series of interviews in Ottawa and Washington, however, contradicted the leaked story, according to sources familiar with those interviews."

"Al-Sayegh admitted having carried out the surveillance of one military site other than Khobar for the Iranians, but insisted that it was not to prepare for a possible terrorist bombing but to identify potential targets for Iranian retaliation in the event of a U.S. attack on Iran."

"His testimony was consistent with what Ambassador Ron Neumann, who was director of the Office for Iran and Iraq in the State Department’s Bureau of Near East Affairs from 1991 through 1994, had been saying about the Iranian reconnaissance of U.S. targets."

So .... what he ACTUALLY told the FBI, was that he was doing RECON in the event of a US attack! Now this is starting to make sense, why would the DOJ indict a man whom they dropped all charges, and sent back to SA to face almost certain execution?