[ao98]

Here's a thread with some info on Jose Pedillo working at Taco Bell.

[aristeides]

Thanks for the link. Your linked article says this:

Padilla’s wife, Cherie Stultz, who worked with Padilla at the restaurant, also converted, taking the name Marwa. She left the job in March 1994, three months after Padilla, according to Taco Bell corporate records.

So Padilla left his Tacfo Bell job in or about Dec. '93. Plenty of time to become an explosives expert by 4/19/95.