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Terror Suspect Indicted After 3 Years in Jail
The counts against Jose Padilla don't refer to the 'dirty bomb' plot he was
first accused of. The U.S. citizen's detention has been a legal flashpoint.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen whose three-year detention in a
Navy brig without criminal charges has been a defining legal battle in the
Bush administration's war on terrorism, has been indicted by a federal grand
jury in Miami, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
In an 11-count indictment, Padilla and four codefendants were accused of
operating a terrorist cell in Canada and the United States in the eight
years leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The indictment, handed up
last week and unsealed Tuesday, charges the five men with providing and
conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to
murder individuals overseas. It contends that they sent money and recruits
overseas with an intention to "murder, kidnap and maim."
Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-padilla23nov23,1,3777254.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
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