Padilla Convicted of Plotting Terror Attacks

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MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted Thursday of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks in a case that came to symbolize the Bush administration's zeal to clamp down on terrorism.

But it was hardly a complete victory for the government. When Padilla was arrested in the months following the 2001 terrorist attacks, authorities touted him as a key al-Qaida operative who planned to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. That allegation never made it to court.

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Padilla Convicted of Plotting Terror Attacks

Instead, after a three-month trial and only a day and a half of deliberations, the 36-year-old Padilla and his foreign-born co- defendants were convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and...

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