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Being charged with conspiring to aid overseas jihadists normally wouldn't be good news--unless you've been in isolation for three years with no charges to fight. But when Jose Padilla learned last week that he had been indicted, "he was extremely happy," his attorney Andrew Patel told TIME. Padilla, a U.S. citizen who has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the military since mid-2002, will be transferred from a Navy brig to a federal prison and, more important, will get a trial date...
...experiences in El Salvador. While acting in an AT&T commercial, he handed the director, Luis Mandoki, the script that would become “Innocent Voices.”The 12-year-old Torres, nicknamed “Chava” in the film, is played by Carlos Padilla in a remarkable acting debut. He’s a parallel of the title character in Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child,” with his mussed hair, small lanky frame, and piercing eyes. Like the boy of that classic film, he swings...
...shooting him in the street or setting off a car bomb. But like a number of other high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that have grabbed big headlines only to quietly fizzle or stall in trial--from alleged terrorist flight student Zacarias Moussaoui and accused dirty bomber Jose Padilla to the Detroit sleeper cell and former enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi--the case against Abu Ali may not play out so dramatically. "He fell in with some bad people but probably never did much himself but talk," says a source in the Middle East who has knowledge of the case...
...Jose Padilla May 8, 2002 Accused of training with al-Qaeda and plotting to detonate a dirty bomb, he is being held as an enemy combatant Padilla continues to challenge his status. The Supreme Court dismissed his case on a technicality but, on the basis of the Hamdi decision, is likely to rule in his favor if there is another hearing...
...fighting over who gets to ride shotgun. Nick Scheele, 60, is relinquishing his role as COO and getting kicked upstairs as company president, while David Thursfield, 58, head of international operations and global purchasing, is simply getting kicked to the curb, with his retirement effective May 1. Meanwhile, Jim Padilla, 57, the Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role of COO and much of the credit for Ford's $6 billion swing into profitability over the past two years. Padilla's push for quality helped the firm pull ahead of Volkswagen and Nissan...