Remember Abdallah Higazy? He was the Egyptian student who was falsely accused of possessing an aviation radio in a hotel room overlooking the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. We wrote about Higazy here and here.

Yesterday, Hagazy filed a $20 million lawsuit against an FBI polygraph examiner charging that the FBI agent coerced him into making a false confession by threatening to have the U.S. government contact the Egyptian security services and make his family's life in Egypt a "living hell."

"Higazy, initially detained as a material witness in the terror investigation on Dec. 17, 2001, spent 31 days in solitary confinement. He was freed only after a security guard at the Millennium Hilton Hotel admitted he had lied when he told FBI agents he had found the radio in a locked safe in Higazy's hotel room on the 51st floor. "

"The lie was uncovered when another guest who had been evacuated from the hotel on Sept. 11, an airline pilot, returned to claim his possessions and demanded his radio back. "

Higazy is seeking $10 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in punitive damages, and a public apology.