Good that Glen has picked this up!
Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC) and Terry Nichols (OKC) crossed paths in the Phillipines. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11)was Yousef's uncle. It is interesting to note that Yousef entered the United States on an Iraqi passport and had been known among the New York fundamentalists as "Rashid, the Iraqi". Another name that could be thrown into the mix is Abdul Rahman Yasin, a U.S. citizen who moved to Iraq in the 1960's and returned to the U.S. in 1992. After the 1993 WTC bombing, Yasin fled to Iraq and was given monthly salary and housing by Saddam Hussein's regime.
Well, the pictures match, but the only other "evidence" in all this is that no one can place, exactly, where Padilla was at the time of the bombing. Seems to me the quickest way to determine if it was, or was not him, was to try to prove he was elsewhere.
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, the founder of the Philippines operations, traveled to the U.S. in late 1994, where he met with Benevolence's then-president Mohamed Loay Bayazid.
There are conflicting reports about when Padilla found Islam. Several anonymous government sources have told news organizations that he converted while in that South Florida prison. But several news stories indicate that he first started seeking out information about Islam during his stint at Taco Bell.
Padilla's boss, a Muslim, told reporters that young Jose asked him about where he could study Islam. Citing a workplace policy against discussing religion, the supervisor says he told Padilla to find a mosque through the yellow pages.
South Florida, and the Fort Lauderdale area in particular, has long been considered a center for radical and extremist Islam in the U.S., and several mosques and organizations in the area have been tied to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
One of the first people Jose Padilla met was Adham Hassoun, an outspoken Palestinian activist living in the area. Hassoun had recently quit his job as a computer programmer to oversee the opening of a Muslim charity in Plantation, Fla., five minutes from Padilla's Taco Bell.
The Benevolence International Foundation was new to the area and had only recently incorporated in the U.S. But the purported charity had existed for a couple of years in previous incarnations — with offices in Pakistan, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines.
So he didn't have to go to the Philippines...he is connected through the Benevolance International Foundation in the Philippines.
This is discredited. Did not happen, there is no connection. Beck looked like an idiot running this story 3 YEARS AGO, and you look bad yourself reposting a thoroughly discredited story, 3 years later.
I remember going over this IN 2002!
ping for later
Off the wall. They're not that similar, and Padilla in any case would have been much younger at that time and wouldn't have looked at all like the photo.
I think the photo is either Mohammed Atta or another member of the Iraqi secret services. Padilla doesn't even look like the sketch - but Atta does.