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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...
...must have been one of Jose Padilla's proudest moments. He had spent his life chasing respect but rarely earning it--marking a dreary passage from a Chicago gang to juvenile detention to grownup prison to a Florida fast-food job and, finally, to a new life as a Muslim in the Middle East. And there he was, somewhere in Pakistan just six months after the Sept. 11 attacks, allegedly presenting an ominous proposal to Abu Zubaydah, Osama bin Laden's operations chief...
...Jose Padilla's court-appointed lawyer is the first to admit she is in over her head. "I'm no constitutional scholar," says Donna Newman, a defense attorney in private practice. "I need help...
GHULAM HASNAIN, our Karachi-based reporter, and TIM PADGETT, our Miami bureau chief, canvassed South Florida's Muslim community for the story on Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir...
PADGETT "While a reporter in Chicago in the 1980s, I often covered the city's Latino street-gang culture. So when the Jose Padilla story broke last week, I felt as though I knew this guy. What I wasn't as familiar with, however, was the Muslim culture Jose had embraced here in Florida in the early '90s, especially the extremist brand of Islam he later adopted. As a result, to explain this tragic turn his life took, I relied on Islamic community leaders in Broward County and colleagues like Hasnain to help me understand the thuggish subculture that...