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Complacency is the enemy of security; if the bad guys have a dirty bomb, they don't need large numbers of recruits to cause enormous damage. At the same time, it makes sense to acknowledge successes in the fight against terrorism; otherwise, ordinary Americans may pessimistically conclude that it will never be won. And from Casablanca to Chicago, the past few weeks have seen some small victories. They aren't numerous enough or decisive enough, but they're good news just the same. --Reported by Hannah Bloch and Syed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Scott MacLeod/Rabat, Andrew Purvis/Sarajevo and Massimo Calabresi...
...June 10 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrest of suspected al-Qaeda associate Jose Padilla in an alleged plot to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. It was only the first big development in a busy week in the war against terrorism...
PAKISTAN On June 14 a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside the American consulate in Karachi, killing 11 and injuring 45 others. But there were successes as well. Officials say they detained Pakistani associates of American dirty-bomb plotter Jose Padilla. The Pakistanis also claimed that over the past few weeks, border raids had captured several more American al-Qaeda fighters, though U.S. officials denied the claim...
Padilla, 31, had prepped hard for his meeting, but his ambition outstripped his guile. Senior U.S. officials tell TIME that Padilla, conducting research on the Internet, had come across instructions for building a nuclear bomb--"an H-bomb," as a top official described it. The instructions were laughably inaccurate--more a parody than a plan--but not recognizing that, Padilla took them to Abu Zubaydah and other al-Qaeda planners and said he wanted to detonate such a weapon in the U.S. "He was trying to build something that would attain a nuclear yield," says a senior Bush Administration official...
...Pakistan and Afghanistan. He moved to Pakistan, where, like many militants, he married the widow of a jihadist. Last year Padilla met with Abu Zubaydah for the first time, U.S. officials say. In spring of this year, he met with Abu Zubaydah again--and allegedly made his nuclear-bomb pitch...