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...them with the idea of detonating a "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city, and they obliged by teaching him to wire a bomb. The impression, in the government's own account, is of a former street hoodlum desperate to join a new gang - and being kept at arm's length. An outsider taught to build a bomb (what's not to like, for al-Qaeda, about a U.S. passport holder asking to be taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization he was desperate to join. The fact that the authorities arrested Padilla immediately...
...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, is in a sort of legal limbo, where not even his lawyer knows exactly what his rights are. He has not yet been charged with a crime...
...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 who found their way to al-Qaeda from Western countries after brushes with the law were kept at arm's length from the organization's deepest networks. U.S. officials told the Washington Post that al Muhajir was not part of Zubaydah's inner circle, and that they were able to find him even though the Bin Laden lieutenant had alluded to the American only in "generic terms" - although, presumably, there aren...
...recommendations responded to the length and difficulty of Ad Board investigations. Each of the seven cases last year dragged on for three or four months and only one reached a definite conclusion...
Some Commencement-goers were miffed by the slow pace of the security checks that made the normally block-length lines to enter the Yard even longer...