Whatever happened to Jose Padilla? And what was the evidence?
Remember Jose Padilla? Remember the alleged “dirty bomber”? ( a crime he was never charged with)
Jose Padilla was the American citizen they locked up for some four or five years without a trial.
Last summer there was a kind of kangaroo court down in miami in which his “lawyer” present no arguments.
I wouldnt call it a “show trial” because the “trial” was barely covered. (Not compared to some pop tarts DUI proceedings)
And so I didnt quite catch what the evidence was. What was the evidence against him that made the US government hold Jose Padilla (but not charge him) for all those years?
Has Jose Padilla been sentenced yet?
Has he been executed yet?
“Evidence”: The key piece of physical evidence was a five-page form Padilla supposedly filled out in July 2000 to attend an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan, which would link the other two defendants as well to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization. The form was recovered by the CIA in 2001 in Afghanistan and contains seven of Padilla’s fingerprints and several other personal identifiers, such as his birthdate and his ability to speak Spanish, English and Arabic. This evidence purportedly establishes that he provided himself to al-Qaida for training to learn to murder, kidnap and maim.
“Sentencing”: Padilla and two co-defendants were convicted in August of 2007 of terrorism, conspiracy and material support charges. Sentencing is scheduled for this week of January 7, 2008 in a Miami federal court. All three men face up to life in prison.
“Execution”: He has not been executed.
Addendum:
“Sentencing”: On Tuesday, January 08, 2008, US District Judge Marcia Cooke (U. S. District Court, Southern District of Florida) began hearing arguments in the sentencing hearing of convicted terrorist Jose Padilla and his two co-defendants, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi. The government is seeking the maximum sentence of life in prison for all three defendants, while Padilla’s lawyers are arguing that he should receive no more than 10 years.
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