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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (1820)	1/17/2003 5:26:43 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

This is your hero? Jose Padilla (also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir), the 31-year-old American suspected of plotting a bomb attack on the United States, had a number of run-ins with the authorities. His last came in Florida in 1991, when he was arrested after a road-rage shooting incident and spent a year in a Florida jail. He completed his probation for aggravated assault and firing a weapon in August 1993. Prior to that, Mr Padilla, a US citizen of Puerto Rican origin, had a number of gang-related encounters with police in Chicago where his family had moved from New York City when he was four years old. Conversion Neighbours quoted in the American press remember Brooklyn-born Jose as "a nice kid who always helped his mother". His juvenile record is sealed, but US media reported that as a teenager he started to get into trouble when he joined the Latin Kings, a Chicago street gang. He is also alleged to have been implicated in a gangland murder when he was 13 and was confined as a juvenile offender in Illinois in 1985. news.bbc.co.uk Maybe the two of you can share a cell.

To: Mao II who wrote (1820)	1/17/2003 5:45:17 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Respond to of 25898

you tell him, we're not in contact Details, of course, are sketchy, but it appears that Padilla converted to Islam after a prison spell in Florida, and eventually made his way to Afghanistan or Pakistan to make common cause with al-Qaeda. According to the government's account, he approached them with the idea of detonating a "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city, and they obliged by teaching him to wire a bomb. The impression, in the government's own account, is of a former street hoodlum desperate to join a new gang — and being kept at arm's length. An outsider taught to build a bomb (what's not to like, for al-Qaeda, about a U.S. passport holder asking to be taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization he was desperate to join. The fact that the authorities arrested Padilla immediately on his arrival in Chicago epic.org *note - Passed the House of Representatives October 24, 2001