[Dales]

Doubtful. More likely it is because Walker was overseas, whereas this guy was plotting to act within the US.

[RCW2001]

WASHINGTON: U.S. passport.

Monday, June 10, 2002
©2002 Associated Press

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/10/national1052EDT0571.DTL

(06-10) 07:52 PDT (AP) --

The probable target of Mujahir's plans to detonate the bomb was Washington, according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity. The plot was not believed to have passed the early planning stages.

Another government official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the intelligence that led to Mujahir's arrest came from captured al Qaida leader Abu Zabaydah during recent interrogations.

The official said Mujahir is a former Chicago street gang member who served time in prison in the 1990s, converted to Islam and met with al-Qaeda leader in 2001 before returning to the United States.

Mujahir will be detained by the U.S. military as an "enemy combatant," the attorney general said, setting up the first military tribunal since the Sept. 11 attacks.

"We have acted with legal authority both under the laws of war and clear Supreme Court precedent, which establishes that the military may detain a United States citizen who has joined the enemy and has entered our country to carry out hostile acts," Ashcroft said.

©2002 Associated Press  

[spokeshave]

Remember the scare a couple of years ago when a Cobalt 60 medical radiation machine ended up in Mexico as scrap and was mixed in with junk steel to make re-bar rods...

Also on another occasion some Mexican junk dealers cracked open a Cobalt souce and played around with that neato "blue glow" steel...

Make good mix in a dirty bomb...heep those borders open and those Mexican trucks flowing.../sarcasm