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Jose Padilla Charged with Conspiracy to Murder U.S. Nationals Overseas, Providing Material Support to Terrorists

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal grand jury in Miami has returned an 11-count superseding indictment that charges Jose Padilla and four additional defendants with conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals and providing material support to terrorists as part of a North American terrorist support cell.

The indictment, returned by the grand jury on Nov. 17, 2005 and unsealed today, charges Padilla with conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and providing material support to terrorists. The indictment also charges for the first time a Canadian national named Kassem Daher, who is believed to be overseas. The three other defendants named in the indictment - Adham Hassoun, Mohamed Youssef and Kifah Jayyousi - had been previously charged with terrorism-related crimes. “The indictment of Jose Padilla and his associates in an alleged North American terrorist support cell demonstrates that we will use every tool at our disposal in vigorously fighting the war on terrorism,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. “Through the use of such tools, including vital provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, we are able to bring criminal prosecutions that strike at the heart of terrorist activities.”

The indictment alleges that Padilla traveled overseas to receive violent jihad training and to fight violent jihad, which would include acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming, from October 1993 to November 2001. On July 24, 2000, Padilla allegedly filled out a “Mujahideen Data Form” in preparation for violent jihad training in Afghanistan. Mohamed Youssef, one of the co-defendants in the case, allegedly reported in September 2000 that Padilla is “supposed to be at Usama’s,” and then reported that he had “entered into the area of Usama.” Other co-conspirators reported Padilla being in Afghanistan in October 2000, according to the indictment.

The indictment alleges that the named defendants were part of a North American support cell designed to send money, physical assets and mujahideen recruits to overseas jihad conflicts. The cell allegedly operated from many cities in the United States and Canada, and supported and coordinated with other support networks and mujahideen groups waging violent jihad. If convicted of the offenses in the indictment, Padilla and his co-defendants face maximum sentences of life in prison.

An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.

The investigation into the case was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Department of Homeland Security. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Russell Killinger, Brian Frazier and Julia Paylor of the Southern District of Florida, and Trial Attorney Stephanie Pell of the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

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SWATTING FLIES
www.donbendell.com ^ | 11/22/2005 | Don Bendell

Posted on 11/22/2005 11:30:12 AM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, Harry Reid, John Murtha, Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, and those of your ilk, where were you when God created the world?

Senator Hiram Johnson in a 1917 speech before the US Senate said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

I’m not speaking of George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, I refer to each of you and either your total sacrifice of integrity for the sake of political expedience, or maybe each of you has simply lost your mind, or just maybe you misplaced your testes. “Pull out of Iraq immediately,” you decry, and most of you have visions of leading our country, especially in these years following the cowardly sneak attack of September 11, 2001? You have got to be kidding! I would not follow any of you to a public undressing of Catherine Zeta-Jones, much less off to war.

Whatever happened to the great statesmen of the democratic party, the John Kennedy’s, the FDR’s, the Harry Truman’s?

Wesley Clark, you are a retired Army general and John Murtha, a retired Marine colonel. Did you two completely forget a code of honor, supporting our troops, and tenacity in the face of adversity? Yes, you did, all for politics, which is empirically more important to you than the safety and psychological well-being of our fighting men and women from whose ranks you rose. How many men under your commands died, so you could betray their legacy of courage by talking about cutting and running in the midst of a war? Neither of you served with any more honor or courage than me, and I gladly will take you to the woodpile for your comments.

Ted Kennedy, you are quite simply a political pimp, who could not even get hired as a lifeguard away from Washington or your family’s money and name. John Kerry, if I had my way, you would be in prison for treason, and Harry Reid and John Dean, all you two have to do is occasionally open your mouths and you save me the trouble of commenting on your actions.

How dare you! How dare you aid and abet the enemies of freedom, of democracy, of man’s inherent right to live without oppression, because of your egomaniacal visions of being one of the great statesmen of our time! Believe me, your actions simply will make you a speck of dust in an unread history book, and a few quickly-forgotten public flashes while being devoured by the multi-headed, gluttonous network news monster.

If you really want to go down in history, become part of the solution, not the problem. You do not publicly say our President lied to go to war. You all know better, but every time one of you makes such ignorant statements, al-Zarqawi laughs and bin-Laden chuckles. Each one of you is one of the most effective weapons of our enemy in a time of war. They use you, with your obedient cooperation. Why? So you or more in your party get into office. What a damnable reason to betray our troops! Hanoi taught our future enemies how to manipulate such a weapon decades ago, but people like you have forgotten all about “lessons-learned” in war. They got away with it with me in the sixties, but you are not going to get away with it with my sons in harm’s way. Every time flies like you leave the manure-pile of Beltway strategizing and try to land on the exposed skin of American public and leave your dung-covered tracks on the minds of innocent or misled Americans, I will be there with my fly-swatter, and I am not alone.

Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, including a tour on a green beret A-team (Dak Pek) in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, is a top-selling author of 21 books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. His pro-Bush/anti-Kerry editorials were widely published in newspapers and magazines, and circulated by millions all over the world on the Internet. He has been interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE and on many radio shows and speaks all over the country. His newest novel, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT, will be released worldwide by Berkley (Penguin) in December 2005.

Permission is hereby granted to reprint, copy, or pass this on wherever and to whomever you choose. This is posted on my website with other political editorials: http://www.donbendell.com .

Blessings, Don Bendell