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...formulated his plan - serves as a timely reminder that congressional probes into pre-September 11 intelligence failures are taking place in the midst of continuing peril. But like those vague threat warnings that periodically emanate from the authorities these days, Monday's announcement of the detention of Abdullah al Muhajir poses more questions than it answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect: Lots of Questions, Few Answers | 6/11/2002 | See Source »

...Attorney General John Ashcroft announced al Muhajir had been captured a month ago, and was now being transferred out of the criminal justice system and into military detention - a move that raised legal eyebrows, since al Mujahir was an American citizen, born Jose Padillo in Brooklyn, NY, and was raised in Chicago. President Bush has deemed the former gangbanger who converted to Islam after a spell in prison (and changed his name) an "enemy combatant." The reason is that al Muhajir had allegedly been trained by al-Qaeda in Pakistan to build a radiological bomb, and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect: Lots of Questions, Few Answers | 6/11/2002 | See Source »

...officials say that al Muhajir was arrested on tips, with evidence provided by senior al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaydah corroborated from other sources. His capture was certainly an impressive example of interagency cooperation and preemptive security based on sound intelligence. But from the information released by U.S. officials Monday, al Muhajir appears to have more in common with solo shoe-bomber Richard Reid than with the 19 hijackers of September 11. Indeed, rather than a specific conspiracy to detonate a radiological bomb at a designated target, al Muhajir may have been doing a feasibility study. There was no suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect: Lots of Questions, Few Answers | 6/11/2002 | See Source »

...Officials suggest al Muhajir had approached Abu Zubaydah and other senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan last December and suggested a dirty bomb attack in the U.S. They liked the fact that al Muhajir had a U.S. passport, and trained him in wiring explosives, while he did research on the Internet into radiological dispersion. From the little reported, the impression is not of a star al-Qaeda engineer but rather of an eager volunteer with easy access to the U.S. Both the al Muhajir instance and the case of shoe-bomber Richard Reid suggest that some of the volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect: Lots of Questions, Few Answers | 6/11/2002 | See Source »

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