[sandmanbr]

No. He said American citizens would not be tried by military tribunals. They have already announced that Padilla would not be tried by military tribunal.

My bad...we'll just hold him indefinitely without a trial till he dies of old age. Why doesn't that make me feel better about this?

Have any of you wondered why every misfit American that traveled to Afghanistan can join the Al Queda with no problem yet our intelligence agencies tell us how it is impossible to infiltrate these organizations? How hard can it be when the likes of Jihad Johnny can share a camel with them?

[Roscoe]

we'll just hold him indefinitely without a trial till he dies of old age.

Flailing and drowning.

[Miss Marple]

The al Qaeda select whom they will, cultivating members from groups that the CIA cannot pretend to be. We don't have 16-year old CIA agents, like Johnny Jihad was when he joined. I doubt we have CIA members as Puerto Rican gang members. Probably that is going to change.

Besides, if we HAD infiltrated al Qaeda, would you expect the intelligence agencies to admit it?

[sneakypete]

How hard can it be when the likes of Jihad Johnny can share a camel with them?

He was a unique case. He was first accepted in a local Mosque when he was 16 years old and still living with his parents. Even then they seemed to check him out pretty carefully as they passed him on from one to another. We don't have many 16 year old agents who still live with their moms.

Padilla is a similiar case. He was a young criminal whose background was beyond question,and had most likely been checked out pretty thouroughly by local Muslims before they passed him up the line. I have no doubt he converted over to Islam while in prison,and his fellow prisoners vouched for him.