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Old 01-05-2005, 02:39 PM   #130 (permalink)
Rekna
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Here is the evidence you wanted

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht...e=Jose_Padilla
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Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al Muhajir, was "transferred from control of the U.S. Department of Justice to military control" on June 9, 2002. He was then "held" in the Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. He was not "charged with a crime" and did not "have access to a lawyer in his detention." [1] (http://www.chargepadilla.org/)

Padilla was "accused of plotting heinous acts of terrorism, particularly the setting off of a 'dirty bomb'. He [was] accused of conspiring with members of al Qaeda, and planning to scout for that terrorist organization, using the benefits of his U.S. citizenship." [2] (http://www.chargepadilla.org/)

Padilla, like Yaser Hamdi, was held "without bail, criminal charges, access to attorneys or the right to remain silent." On June 9, 2001, the Department of Justice designated Padilla as an enemy combatant. [3] (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20020821.html) [4] (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723596/posts)

On June 12, 2002, "government officials admitted that they had no physical evidence linking Padilla to a bomb plot--no bomb materials or even documented attempts to obtain bomb materials, no diagrams, not even a chemistry textbook." [5] (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723596/posts)

"Soon after that, it came out that most of the government's case against Padilla rested on information given to them by Abu Zubaydah, a former Al-Qaeda operative who had been feeding U.S. investigators with a steady string of warnings and doomsday predictions--none of which ever came to pass--ever since his capture in late March." [6] (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723596/posts)

"Padilla's indefinite detention, without access to an attorney, has civil libertarians up in arms. That's why the Cato Institute, joined by five ideologically diverse public policy organizations -- the Center for National Security Studies, the Constitution Project, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, People for the American Way, and the Rutherford Institute--filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Padilla v. Rumsfeld (http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/amicus_brief.pdf), ... before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York." [7] (http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-21-03.html)

In December 2003, the federal appeals court ruled that "President Bush does not have power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, the former gang member seized on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant." AP, December 18, 2003 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...terror_suspect).

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier Tuesday that Padilla -- who also goes by the name of Abdullah Al Muhajir -- may never face trial.

"'Our interest is not in trying him and punishing him,' Rumsfeld said. 'Our interest is in finding out what he knows.'" CNN, June 11, 2002 (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/11/dirty.bomb.suspect/).

"Jose, Interrupted: Where Is Terrorist Jose Padilla?" (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723596/posts), Friends of Liberty, July 28, 2002:

"In a sequence of events that should turn every American literally white with terror before the awesome power of our media apparatus, a former gang member-turned-would-be terrorist was dug up out of a pit after being held illegally for a month, offered to the entire world as public enemy number one for about ten minutes, and then tossed back into purgatory, apparently to be officially forgotten for the rest of eternity."
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