Breaking: John Ashcroft says U.S. disrupted plans to attack U.S. with "dirty" radiation bomb.

[Dales]

Breaking now. Details shortly

[CedarDave]

Joint DOJ/DOD briefing coming up at 11 a.m. EDT.

[EggsAckley]

He is a hispanic convert to Islam

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.

[kjam22]

LOL!

[SarahW]

Now Now, I'm sure you're still too dangerous to throw in the well.

[maxwell]

school's out for summer, silly rabbit.

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.

[EggsAckley]

Had a rocket in yer pocket?? ;o)

[shadeaud]

that would be covered up for sure if he was.

[marty60]

He was an AMERICAN citizen

[RCW2001]

Government announces arrest of terrorist who plotted radiological attack

Monday, June 10, 2002
©2002 Associated Press

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.

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©2002 Associated Press  

[Semper Paratus]

He is a hispanic convert to Islam

Abdullah Gonzalez?

[CedarDave]

Done already -- A_M's not asleep this morning!!

[lilsparky]

Haven't turned on TV yet. They got one guy? He was going to do this all by himself?

[caa26]

Now the quesion is this the only guy out there or are there others? If he is part of Al Qaeda or any other terrorist network, its likely there are other dirty bomber terrorist in the woodwork.

[freeperfromnj]

From NBC5 News:

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.

[wheezer]

On a school day??

LOL

[Dales]

CNN:

Ashcroft: U.S. foiled 'dirty' bomb attack

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

[epluribus_2]

Kinda like OKC bomber and JD#2, eh? Some people still think it implausible but time will tell...

[Miss Marple]

This is why they have transferred him to DOD. They don't want the info leaked by defense attorneys.

[The Mike Device]

He was Peurto Rican they're saying on the news. "That Lousy Cheeken !"