No. of Recommendations: 2
That "fabricated" part is false.
From the net sifter:
In August 2007, a federal jury convicted Jose Padilla of conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim individuals overseas, and providing material support to terrorists.
Though he was initially arrested in 2002 under the suspicion of planning a domestic "dirty bomb" radiological attack, he was never charged or convicted of a bomb plot. Instead, his actual criminal conviction centered on his involvement with a North American terrorist support cell.
Specifically, he was convicted of doing the following:
-Joining a Terrorist Support Cell: He acted as a recruit and operative for an extremist cell that provided funding, assets, and personnel to overseas jihad conflicts.
-Attending an Al-Qaeda Training Camp: He traveled overseas and attended an al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. The prosecution’s evidence included an official al-Qaeda training camp application form that bore Padilla's fingerprints
-Conspiring to Commit Terrorism Abroad: He participated in encrypted, coded phone conversations with co-conspirators to plan and facilitate acts of violence, murder, and kidnapping outside the United States.
The charges he was convicted on, had nothing to do with the Bush junta's inflammatory "dirty bomb" claim.
Padilla was in prison from May 8, 2002 to November 22, 2005, when the indictment was issued. If people had not made such a stink about him being locked up without due process, he could have been in prison longer.
The point being, if the Bush junta could do it to him, the current regime could do it to anyone.
He doesn't have the political power to arrest a U.S. senator.
Who would say "no"? Even if Congress tried to impeach him for it, that would be redundant, given the abundant evidence of his corruption.
Steve
