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...Padilla was arrested in May at Chicago's O'Hare airport after disembarking from his plane from Pakistan and taken to a prison in New York City. Sunday, he was handed over to the military and labeled an "enemy combatant" - someone, in the Pentagon's words, "who does not adhere to the rules of war; someone without weapons, without ties to recognized governments." An enemy combatant may also be detained by a government for any length of time without ever being charged with a crime. This means Padilla, who is currently in military custody in South Carolina...
...arrest of accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Mujahir, has raised two important questions about the future of the war on terror. First, it has illuminated the specter of the "insider" terrorist - someone who by virtue of his U.S. citizenship can move freely across the United States, plotting terrorist acts without ever once raising a red flag, raising the possibility that that detection is about to get a lot more difficult. Second, Padilla's arrest and subsequent detention sparked considerable concern - as well as a vocal debate - over the fate of civil liberties in a time...
...Padilla's lawyer, Donna Newman, questions the government's commitment to that latter requirement - and there are others who share her doubts, including lawmakers like Senators John McCain and Arlen Specter, who urged Congress to convene congressional hearings...
...this is speculation, of course. But with the case of Abdullah al Muhajir/Jose Padilla now in the hands of the military, speculation may be the only game in town...
Concerns about the civil liberties of Arab Americans stem in part from drastic steps the government took during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to INTERNMENT CAMPS. In an issue with a cover story on Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, TIME wrote of one of the first groups sent away...