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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday to be drawn into a dispute over President Bush's power to detain American terror suspects and deny them traditional legal rights. It would have been unusual for the court to take the case of "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla now, because a federal appeals court has not yet ruled on the issue. Arguments are scheduled for July 19 at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. A year ago, the court ruled the Bush administration was out of line by locking up foreign terrorist suspects at the Navy base...

Matt Hale is also Jose Padilla. When will the "American" media apologize to Matt Hale (and Jose Padilla)? Every branch of the major media has convicted Matt Hale of a crime which he did not commit. The FBI informant at Hale's trial is a former mental patient whose testimony should not have had any credibility, and if the judiciary and media had been doing their job the case would never have been brought to trial. That is what judges and real journalists are for, not to help the police agencies imprison people for their political views. The FBI has never...

A federal court in South Carolina has ruled that Brooklyn-born Jose Padilla, reputed Al Qaeda bomber-in-training, cannot indefinitely be jailed without charges, notwithstanding more than ample evidence of his intent to wreak havoc on American soil and notwithstanding whatever useful war-on-terror intelligence his military inquisitors may yet pry out of him. "The President has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant," the judge ruled. In other words, charge Padilla or release him. Solid argument. It is persuasively the case that Padilla is a very bad actor and that we are...

When news broke that Abdullah al-Muhajir, better known as Jose Padilla, the man accused of planning to build a "dirty bomb," was a graduate of America's prison system, I wasn't surprised. I've seen hundreds of potential Abdullahs up close. During 26 years walking the cell blocks of America's prisons, I've encountered a growing Muslim presence. Islam, which offers brotherhood and solidarity, especially for people of color, is for the most part a law-abiding religion. But not always. Some years ago I spoke at an open meeting at the Jackson, Mich., penitentiary. Over 300 Christians filled the seats on one side...

Aha. So it turns out that Jose Padilla is really rather not a nice person after all. Having duly filled out his Al Qaeda application("Do you have a conscience?" No. "Do you have a whit of humanity and decency?" No.), the Chicago gang punk traipsed off to terror training camp in Afghanistan, earned all his merit badges and returned to his homeland to wreak havoc. And worse. As detailed yesterday by the Department of Justice, Padilla, a U.S. citizen, is indeed the enemy combatant the government had described. A few exploding apartment buildings and hotels here, a homemade "dirty bomb"...

On the same day the U.S. government announced that terrorist Jose Padilla sought to obtain nuclear materials and detonate a dirty nuclear weapon in the U.S., Sen. John Kerry said the key to U.S. security is to unilaterally stop building nuclear weapons. Touted as the major national security speech of his campaign so far, the presumptive Democrat nominee said that as his first order of business as president he will abandon plans to build new nuclear weapons, including “bunker-busting” nuclear weapons advocated by the Bush administration. Kerry's statement for a unilateral U.S. nuclear arms moratium also coincided with the U.N....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday is expected to release more information about Jose Padilla, suspected of plotting with al Qaeda to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the United States. One law enforcement official said a news conference, with Deputy Attorney General James Comey and scheduled for 12:45 p.m., would involve releasing newly declassified information about Padilla. The official declined to give any details. Padilla, who has not been changed with any crime and whose case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, has been confined in a military prison in South Carolina for about...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 — Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. The Pakistani officials said most of the men had been picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in the country's remote tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. They said they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside Al...

<p>MIAMI (CNN) -- Federal officials in Miami told CNN Saturday they had arrested a south Florida Muslim activist with ties to "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla.</p> <p>Adham Amin Hassoun was arrested during a Wednesday night traffic stop by members of South Florida Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela and Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Rodney Germain.</p>

Over the past few days, the long-time claim of The New York Times that it is the newspaper of record was finally and absolutely demolished. How did this happen? On Sunday, in a Page One three-column above the fold story entitled Terror Suspect's Path From Streets To Brig, The Times reported on the life of terror suspect Jose Padilla. The 6,280 word story begins by telling us of the four years that Padilla spent in juvenile detention following his murder of a Mexican immigrant. After this it recounts Padilla's arrest on two charges related to an incident in which he...

Shortly after the announcement of alleged al Qaeda dirty bomber Jose Padilla's arrest in June 2002, a number of Internet sites posted a comparison of Padilla's 1991 mug shot to a police sketch of John Doe No. 2, a never-apprehended suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing. Stories on the comparison appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Herald, as well as on the Web site of the Village Voice, NBC's "Today Show," and NPR's "Here and Now" radio news program, among others. INTELWIRE has extensively investigated Padilla in an effort to confirm or refute such a connection. As...

<p>The New York Times' Sunday profile of accused dirty-bomb terrorist Jose Padilla reports, at age 14, he was involved in a fateful armed robbery. Padilla's accomplice fatally stabbed a Mexican immigrant, and Padilla kicked victim Elio Evangelista in the head "because he felt like it," records say.</p>

Jose Padilla, an enemy combatant detained at the Charleston Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., will be allowed access to a lawyer subject to appropriate security restrictions, the Department of Defense announced today. Arrangements for that access are being coordinated. DoD is allowing Padilla access to counsel as a matter of discretion and military authority. Such access is not required by domestic or international law and should not be treated as a precedent. A similar decision to allow Yaser Esam Hamdi access to a lawyer was announced Dec. 2, 2003. DoD has determined that such access will not compromise the...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to decide by summer whether national security justifies detention of American citizens indefinitely and without charges. The administration filed papers Friday asking the high court to take on the case of Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member and convert to Islam arrested in May 2002 in an alleged plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb." Padilla is closely associated with the al-Qaida terrorist network and "represents a continuing, present and grave danger to the national security of the United States," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote. The government separately asked...

ANALYSIS: The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that it will seek an expedited Supreme Court review of the incarceration of Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al Muhajir, in a filing on or around Jan. 20. The decision comes as a surprise to those following the case. Padilla (as he is referred to in his court case) was designated an enemy combatant by the president in June 2002 and has subsequently been detained in a Navy brig in South Carolina, where he has been denied access to legal counsel or family visits. Padilla has not been formally charged with any crime, but...

The case for a federal terrorism court. IN DECEMBER, the Bush administration suffered two legal setbacks in the war on terror. An opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit challenged the government's claim that it has the right to detain terror suspect Jose Padilla (the "dirty bomber") without giving him access to the courts or charging him with a crime. Separately, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the nebulous legal status of some 600 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, must be open to judicial scrutiny. In both decisions...

<p>"How can the President of the United States detain a U.S. citizen on American soil and hold him without charge and without a lawyer, perhaps for years?" This is the question that apparently boggled the judicial mind in the Second Circuit's recent decision directing that Jose Padilla be turned loose by the U.S. military or surrendered to civilian prosecutors in the criminal justice system. Given the near certainty of further review by the full Second Circuit or the Supreme Court, the question remains important.</p>

Two federal courts yesterday rebuked the Bush administration, ruling that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base should have access to attorneys and U.S. courts, and separately deciding that President Bush had no authority to detain an American citizen arrested on U.S. soil as an enemy combatant.     A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco described the administration's detention of 660 terrorism suspects at Guantanamo, arrested by U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan, as "running roughshod over the rights of citizens and aliens alike."     In a 2-1 decision, on a petition filed by a relative of...

In a signal 2-to-1 ruling yesterday, a federal appeals court in Manhattan struck a blow against egregious presidential overreaching in the name of fighting terrorism. The court, ruling in the case of Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber, denied the Bush administration's sweeping claim that the president has executive authority to hold Americans indefinitely in secret without access to lawyers simply by declaring them "enemy combatants." Mr. Padilla, an American citizen, was taken into custody in Chicago in May 2002. He is being held incommunicado at a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C, where he has been denied access to counsel....

<p>Yesterday's big legal news--no, not the charges against Michael Jackson--is that two federal appeals courts issued decisions ignoring the fact that the U.S. homeland was attacked on September 11.</p> <p>From New York comes a ruling by the Second Circuit ordering the release of alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla. In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit decided that the detainees at Guantanamo must have access to lawyers and the federal courts.</p>

<p>Yesterday's big legal news--no, not the charges against Michael Jackson--is that two federal appeals courts issued decisions ignoring the fact that the U.S. homeland was attacked on September 11.</p> <p>From New York comes a ruling by the Second Circuit ordering the release of alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla. In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit decided that the detainees at Guantanamo must have access to lawyers and the federal courts.</p>

Bush Overruled on Enemy Combatant Case Email this Story Dec 18, 11:17 AM (ET) NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush does not have power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla seized on U.S. soil as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision could force Padilla, held in a so-called "dirty bomb" plot, to be tried in civilian courts. In a 2-to-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Padilla's detention was not authorized by Congress and that Bush could not designate him as an enemy combatant without the authorization.

First the brief Reuters article, then the URL of the 2nd Circuit opinion - the latter is a 53-page PDF file. Appeals Court Says Bush Can't Hold U.S. Citizen Thu December 18, 2003 11:11 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court, in a harsh blow to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, ruled on Thursday that the president does not have the power to detain an American citizen seized on U.S. soil as an enemy combatant. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, ordered the government to release Jose Padilla, who is being held...

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<p>WASHINGTON — Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen being held as an enemy combatant in the war on terror, continues to provide valuable intelligence to the government and will not be allowed access to a lawyer until those collection efforts cease, officials said Tuesday.</p>

A chief architect of the USA Patriot Act and a former top assistant to Attorney General John Ashcroft are voicing concern about aspects of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policy, the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported on Sunday. At issue is the government's power to designate and detain "enemy combatants," in particular in the case of "dirty bomb" plot suspect Jose Padilla, the New York-born former gang member who was picked up at a Chicago airport 18 months ago by the FBI and locked in a military brig without access to a lawyer. Civil liberties groups and others contend that Padilla --...

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

A Junior al-Qaeda . . .: . . . right here at home There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving very far down it. What lies beyond, however, isn't a closed-off community of rich retirees. Instead, it's a trailer-park compound of black Muslims, or "The Muslims of America," according to a green billboard by the entrance, where an armed guard keeps a wary eye on the ...

 DefenseWatch  "The Voice of the Grunt"  Special Report: Protect Home Base First  ARTICLE 02 October 30, 2002Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al FurqaBy Christian M. WeberIn the Middle East today, we see a young generation of Muslims being trained to hate Israel and the West while cherishing the thought of martyrdom. It is easy to see the brutal path that has been chosen for these children. However, for those not schooled in this path of destruction, the road to terrorism usually takes on one of two forms.The first form includes Islamic extremists, such as Osama Bin Laden, who rose...

Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States. Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects — now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia — were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada. The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a...

Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...

Al-Qaida's operational approaches Posted: October 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Tom Marzullo © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Have you ever wondered how the dispersed terrorist groups manage to operate so discretely and persistently in the West? In considering the unconventional nature of al-Qaida and the other groups aligned against us, it can be immediately noted that the larger, more spectacular attacks are few and far between. What follows is an analysis and discussion of only one of the methodologies used to create major attacks that will be mounted against the United States. If you read one of the recent revelations that...

Two held over US fears of radical cell in forces By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 24/09/2003) The United States military is urgently investigating a potential radical Muslim cell among its own servicemen at the Guantanamo Bay prison as it emerged yesterday that two more members of the garrison are in custody. Senior Airman Ahmad I al-Halabi, an Arabic language translator, was secretly arrested a month ago, Pentagon officials said last night. He is being held at an air base in California and is charged with more than 30 counts of espionage, aiding the enemy, disobeying a lawful order and...

<p>An Army Islamic chaplain, who counseled al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, has been charged with espionage, aiding the enemy and spying, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>Capt. James J. Yee, a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., was arrested earlier this month by the FBI in Jacksonville, Fla., as he arrived on a military charter flight from Guantanamo, according to a law-enforcement source.</p>

<p>A U.S.-born man captured in Afghanistan has joined two other men deemed enemy combatants at the Navy brig at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station.</p> <p>Yasser Esam Hamdi was transferred to the brig near Hanahan from Norfolk, Va., on July 30, Maj. Michael Shavers said.</p>

Qatari Man Designated Enemy Combatant POSTED: 3:16 p.m. EDT June 23, 2003 UPDATED: 3:32 p.m. EDT June 23, 2003 WASHINGTON -- A man from Qatar has been designated as an enemy combatant of the United States -- for allegedly paving the way for al-Qaida operatives to settle in the United States. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al Marri has been in custody since 2001. The government's move puts him under the control of the Defense Department, without the rights afforded defendants in the civilian criminal justice system. Al Marri is accused of lying to the FBI, and also of credit card fraud....

Dirty-Bomb Suspect Lawyer Meeting Debated NEW YORK (AP)--The government asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that defense lawyers should be allowed to meet with Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a dirty bomb. In a case being closely watched by civil liberties advocates, the government wrote in court papers Thursday that it may have failed in prior arguments ``to focus on the grave damage to national security'' that would result if its interrogation of Padilla were interrupted. Letting Padilla see a lawyer would ``set back his interrogation by months, if not...

<p>WASHINGTON — The kidnappings and killings by Yasser Arafat's thugs at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was, for many, the first encounter with terrorism. Since then, it has become a fact of life with countless news items about the hijacking of aircraft and cruise ships, taking and executing hostages, arson, shooting and bombing at will — all over the world.</p>

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to make an open book of the lives of hundreds of mostly young, mostly Muslim men in the United States in the belief that Al Qaeda-trained terrorists remain in this country, awaiting instructions to attack. Senior law enforcement officials say the surveillance campaign is being carried out by every major F.B.I. office in the country and involves 24-hour monitoring of the suspects' telephone calls, e-mail messages and Internet use, as well as scrutiny of their credit-card charges, their travel and their visits to neighborhood gathering places, including mosques. The...

Gov't Had Missile in Okla. Building Thursday September 26, 2002 7:50 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City federal building, the government had a TOW antitank missile stowed in a locker several floors above the daycare center. The missile, about 3 feet long, actually had an inert warhead and only a small amount of rocket fuel, and the government says it did not contribute to the massive explosion that day. Instead, it tumbled into the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah building. But its discovery prompted an evacuation that slowed rescue efforts April 19, 1995,...

www.frontpagemag.com       Return to normal view How the Radical Left Spawned 9/11 FrontPageMagazine.com | June 14, 2002 By: Jamie Glazov THANK GOD.Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla, who was in the planning stages of blowing up Washington, D.C. with a "dirty bomb" laced with radioactive materials, is now in custody.That makes the radical Left very unhappy.That’s why moral degenerates like Michael Ratner, the spokesman for the Center for Constitutional Rights, are frothing at the mouth. They are outraged that the Justice Department has classified Padilla as an "enemy combatant," which has deprived him of legal rights and protections accorded to average criminals....

Fight to clear Mudd's name may affect terror war Military trial key issue in assassin doctor's legal case WASHINGTON -- After 137 years, the effort to clear Dr. Samuel Mudd's name finally has made it to the federal court of appeals. As it turns out, the case hardly could be more timely. Mudd was the Maryland doctor who treated the broken leg of President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, just hours after Booth fatally shot the president at Ford's Theatre here in April 1865. A military commission later convicted Mudd of aiding the escape of Booth, who was killed after...

Today's editorial pages are giddy with delight at the plea agreement reached yesterday in the John Walker Lindh case. Lindh agreed to plead guilty to two charges—aiding the Taliban and carrying explosives while doing so. The bargain was good for everyone. The government dropped all the serious charges, including its claim that Lindh had anything to do with the death of Mike Spann, the CIA officer killed in the prison uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif on Nov. 25. Lindh gets more jail time than the flimsy evidence against him warranted, and the government is spared an embarrassing trial and ugly disclosures about...

"The FBI did not want to pick Hassoun up, preferring instead to continue their surveillance and see where it would lead them. Sources said the bureau's hand was forced when agents monitored a phone call from a Miami newspaper reporter to Hassoun seeking information about the Padilla case and feared that their subject might flee." HERE

About once every two weeks or so, our rights hang in the balance, barely surviving the threat represented to them by the Bush administration. This is one of those times — at least it was on Monday, although by today this latest threat may already have passed.The military detention of Jose Padilla has produced one of the choruses of periodic howls from the predictable quarters, and from some unpredictable ones as well, including Alan Keyes and the New York Post's excellent film critic and columnist Jonathan Foreman.Jude Wanniski, firmly in the predictable camp, hazards to guess the reason why...

Check out this incredible PBS RADIO INTERVIEW(Real Player) with John Berger who runs the WhoIsJohnDoe2.Com website. Go about five minutes into the show to hear the beginning of this interview.

Witness Who Rented Ryder Truck To Oklahoma Bomber Reserves Comment On Photo Similarities Between 'Dirty Bomber' Padilla And FBI Drawing Of 'John Doe #2' Copyright 2002 San Antonio LightningThe man who testified that he rented the "death" truck to Timothy McVeigh has confirmed that he has seen the photo and sketch comparisons of "John Doe" and accused "Dirty Bomber" Jose Padilla (See below), but tells the Lightning that he will withhold comment for now on advice of legal counsel.Eldon Elliott, was the owner of Elliott's Body Shop, a Ryder truck outlet in Junction City, Kansas, the day Tim McVeigh and...

<p>A number of witnesses told authorities they had seen a man with convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh a few days before the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds more. They said the man was not McVeigh's convicted co-conspirator Terry Nichols.</p>

Forget the small fry: the big guys are still out there By Mark Steyn (Filed: 16/06/2002) By common consent, the "dirty bomb" story bombed. At the beginning of last week, John Ashcroft, the US Attorney-General, announced that the authorities had apprehended an American citizen, Abdullah al-Muhajir, formerly Jose Padilla, for plotting to explode a "dirty bomb", which, as Mr Ashcroft helpfully explained, "is highly toxic to humans and can cause mass death and injury". He was being detained "for the safety of all Americans". The Dow Jones immediately dropped 80 points on the announcement, while the rest of America gave...

<p>And the first of these is with respect to a William Davis. And the parties have agreed that if he were called as a witness in this case, he would testify as follows: "I am married to Patricia Davis, who is the sister of the defendant, Timothy James McVeigh. In early 1993, I owned and operated a business known as Bill Davis Electric which was then located in my home at 11240 N.W. 27th Court, Plantation, Florida, 33323.</p>