Posted on 06/10/2002 7:30:38 AM PDT by Dales
Breaking now. Details shortly
Oh, great. Now we have a Mexican immigrant (most likely) who may have entered the US illegally (possibly) who has converted to Islam and now wants to blow up the US. argh.
Bwahaha... Silly me... Well grad students don't even know what summer break is...
Tell her science ain't schoolwork anyway. Science is the sheer embodiment of joyous life. Or some such crap. When I was an anklebiter I sat around solving second-order differential equations on the weekends.
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/10/national1039EDT0560.DTL
(06-10) 07:39 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
The U.S. government has arrested an alleged al Qaida terrorist who plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty" bomb, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday.
Ashcroft said Abdullah Al Mujahir was in the custody of the U.S. military and being treated as an enemy combatant, suggesting plans for the first military tribunal of an alleged terrorist.
The attorney general, who was in Moscow, made the announcement through a television hookup.
©2002 Associated Press
Abdullah Gonzalez?
Ashcroft: U.S. Stops Radioactive Plot
Al-Qaida-Linked Suspect Arrested At Chicago O'Hare Airport
UPDATED: 10:36 a.m. EDT June 10, 2002
Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday said U.S. authorities have arrested an al-Qaida-linked American citizen who had planned to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the United States.
Federal authorities took the man in cutody at Chicago O'Hare International airport after a flight from Pakistan. The man was traveling with a U.S. passport.
"We have disrupted a terrorist attack on the United States," Ashcroft said, adding that the man is listed now as an "enemy combatant" in the custody of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Ashcroft said that the suspect sought to use a radioactive dirty bomb, but the plot was thwarted.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today that the U.S. has captured a "known terrorist" with connections to al Qaeda who was plotting to build and detonate a radioactive "dirty" bomb in the United States. The man, a U.S. citizen who was captured last month as he flew into Chicago's O'Hare Airport from Pakistan, has been turned over to the Defense Department as an "enemy combatant." FULL STORY SOON
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