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Five years ago, Jose Padilla was the Dirty Bomber, a "known terrorist" at the core of "an unfolding terrorist plot" to wreak havoc on the United States with a "radioactive dirty bomb," as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft proclaimed...
...overreaching of the Bush Administration's war on terror. Initially whisked away to the dark hole where "enemy combatants" go to be interrogated and held without charges, he emerged more than three years later as an almost conventional suspect endowed with constitutional rights. Gone were allegations of a dirty bomb and a scheme to annihilate apartment buildings. In their place were charges of conspiring to support terrorism and kill unspecified people overseas...
...Padilla was in Afghanistan when the U.S. invaded in October 2001, moving "from safe house to safe house," the court records say, until he made it to Pakistan. There he allegedly met suspected terrorist honchos like Abu Zubaydah (to whom he allegedly suggested making a dirty bomb) and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (who allegedly told him to go to the U.S. and blow up apartment buildings...
Harvard College Library employee David S. Toomey was arrested at the Alewife T Station yesterday morning after allegedly implying that he had a bomb in his backpack, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) official said last night. He will be arraigned in Cambridge District Court this morning on charges of disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that both commuters and MBTA employees overheard Toomey making verbal threats about the contents of his backpack. Bomb technicians were brought in to examine the backpack. They found no explosives, Pesaturo added. Rail service was suspended between...
...much more crucially, Cheney has to hammer home the message that only the U.S. can stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. A meeting of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members on Wednesday in Berlin to discuss a new resolution against Iran should help...