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Who is Jose Padilla ( Abdullah Al Muhajir )?
http://muntaqim.web1000.com/news/news-52.htm
According to media reports, the man suspected of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, a
Brooklyn-born Hispanic Catholic who converted to Islam when he married a Middle
Eastern woman, had a lengthy criminal record in two states. The record started with an
arrest in connection with a murder when he was a teenager.
In 1985, the man, born Jose Padilla to Puerto Rican parents but later known as
Abdullah al-Muhajir, told the police that after his friend stabbed a stranger in a
Chicago alley, Mr. Padilla, who was 14, kicked the victim in the head \"because he
felt like it,\" a police report said. While in jail in Florida in 1992, Mr. Padilla
pushed an officer and said, \"If you touch me, you don\'t know what I\'ll do to you,\"
recalled the officer, Marc Albino of the Broward County Sheriff\'s Department.
Mr. Padilla, served time in a juvenile detention center in Illinois and later in a
Florida prison, though neighbors here and on Long Island, where he lived with his
pregnant wife in 1994, remembered him as quiet and good-natured. \"He has the same
face he did when he was a child,\" Norma Leon, 47, said after seeing his photograph on
the Internet. For a decade Ms. Leon shared a house with Mr. Padilla\'s family in the
Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. \"I don\'t believe it,\" she said, \"but then
again, people do change.\"
The story of how a Chicago street criminal may have become an operative for Al Qaeda
baffled law enforcement officials and gang experts. Mr. Padilla\'s path is strikingly
different from that of John Walker Lindh, the American who the government says joined
the Taliban after growing up in a liberal, affluent family in California\'s Bay Area
before traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan to find himself through Islam. Though
many blacks become Muslims while in prison, conversions are rare among Hispanic gang
members.
A high-ranking law enforcement official in New York said that Mr. Padilla had hatched
a plan for exploding a dirty bomb himself and that it was unclear whether it had been
embraced by Al Qaeda leaders or whether a site had been picked. \"He might have been
distrusted,\" the official said, \"maybe because he was not Arab or he was a convert.\"
Mr. Padilla moved to Chicago as a child of 4 or 5, living with his mother, who worked
in hotels, and several half-siblings, neighbors said. He played baseball and
basketball at the school across the street from the gray-stone house where he slept on
a bunk bed in a room off the kitchen. One landlord recalled teaching the boy to drive
a blue 1965 Chevy in an empty Lincoln Park lot; another said he was diligent about
doing his chores, hauling out garbage and cleaning his room.
But in 1985, Mr. Padilla was arrested in Chicago in connection with an armed robbery
turned homicide. He told the police that he and a friend had decided to rob a pair of
Mexican gang members because they were drunk; court documents show they took a watch,
$107 and some Mexican currency. The victims chased the robbers, leading to the
stabbing. Mr. Padilla was prosecuted as a juvenile.
Mr. Padilla\'s records are sealed because of his age at the time, but he is believed
to have spent three years in juvenile detention. The prosecutor at the trial where his
partner was convicted of murder said in a closing statement that Mr. Padilla
\"punched, kicked and clubbed\" a victim with a baseball bat. Court records show that
Mr. Padilla, using aliases, was arrested twice in 1989, for assault and battery and
for trespassing, and failed to report to his probation officer two months in a row,
prompting an arrest warrant.
Two years later, he faced weapons charges after being caught on Chicago\'s West Side
with an unregistered .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson, police records show. At one point, he
identified himself as a member of the Latin Disciples gang.
Mr. Padilla apparently jumped bail and, soon after, got in trouble 1,355 miles away,
in Sunrise, Florida., near his mother\'s home. He was sentenced to 364 days in jail
after a traffic accident in which he fired a revolver toward a car 20 to 25 feet away,
according to police reports.
\"He was resisting our commands, he was reaching for the gun,\" said the arresting
officer, Lt. Charles Vitale of the Sunrise police. \"He was 20 years old. It was an
anger-type incident. None of those prior incidents came out. There were no links to
organized crime or anything during our investigation.\"
Sometime after his release in 1992, Mr. Padilla apparently married a Muslim Egyptian
woman and adopted the name Abdullah al-Muhajir. Carl Christesen remembered watching
him play with his son on the lawn of the house the family rented in a working-class
section of Brentwood, N.Y., in 1994.
According to The Washington Post, \"The transformation of a chubby Catholic boy named
Jose Padilla into an Islamic terrorist suspected of plotting to unleash a \"dirty
bomb\" on an American city is the mystery of the moment. There were bits and pieces of
information yesterday-the instantly notorious mug shot, police records, vague memories
from neighbors - but not much more. No one could explain why a Puerto Rican kid who
spent much of his adolescence in juvenile hall ended up researching radiological
dispersion devices and learning how to wire explosives in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He apparently converted to Islam in or after prison. He apparently completed a
substance abuse course. He apparently married an Egyptian woman and left the country.
But this much is definite: He was arrested May 8 after getting off a flight from
Pakistan at O\'Hare International Airport in Chicago, and he is now in a Navy brig in
Charleston, S.C.
When Jose was 4, his mother, Estela Ortega, moved him to West Chicago, where they
lived in a modest rowhouse they shared with two other families; his father apparently
died when he was young. Neighbors recalled that Jose\'s nickname was \"Pucho,\" or
pudgy, and that he played softball in the streets.
On the afternoon of Oct. 8, 1991, he got in a traffic accident in Sunrise, showed off
a silver .38-caliber revolver, then drove away, according to a police report. When the
other driver followed to try to take down his license, Padilla shot at his vehicle
from about 25 feet away. The other driver gave his tag number to the police, who
surprised him that night when he returned to his girlfriend\'s apartment in
Lauderhill. \"He went for his gun, but we convinced him to comply,\" recalled Sunrise
police Lt. Charles Vitale.
That\'s just about all Vitale remembers about him. The complaint says he was
5-foot-10, 170 pounds. He requested an attorney. When he went to prison, he listed his
religion as Catholic. While in jail, he assaulted a sheriff\'s deputy. After a year in
prison, he was arrested nearly a dozen times up to 1997 on traffic offenses, including
speeding and driving with a revoked license. Once, while driving his girlfriend\'s
Toyota Tercel, he gave his name as Jose Alicea, and presented a driver\'s license in
that name. But never Abdullah al Muhajir.
The Washington Post, further reports that, \"An associate involved in the alleged plot
had been apprehended by Pakistani authorities along with al Muhajir. The Pakistanis
released al Muhajir to allow US investigators to track him on his way to the United
States, sources said.
Al Muhajir\'s alleged plot marks the only terror plan targeted at the United States to
come to light since the December arrest of British national Richard C. Reid. He was
restrained by passengers on a transatlantic flight after he allegedly attempted to
light explosives contained in his shoes.
Still, many senior US officials took pains yesterday to describe the plan as
rudimentary and unformed. \"There was not an actual plan,\" Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul D. Wolfowitz said at a news conference yesterday. \"We stopped this man in the
initial planning stages.\" Wolfowitz said that al Muhajir \"indicated some knowledge
of the Washington, D.C., area,\" but Wolfowitz and other officials played down early
reports that the District was the intended terrorist target.
Ashcroft and other administration officials alleged that while he was in Pakistan, al
Muhajir researched radiological weapons and methods for wiring explosives. On several
occasions in 2001 he met with senior al Qaeda leaders, they said.
In possession of a valid, and therefore valuable, US passport, al Muhajir was sent
back to the United States to conduct reconnaissance for the eventual detonation of a
dirty bomb, officials said. \"We have a man detained who is a threat to the country
and . . . thanks to the vigilance of our intelligence-gathering and law enforcement,
he is now off the street, where he should be,\" Bush said yesterday during a photo
session in Washington with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Zubaida, who has emerged as one of the United States\'s most important sources of
information about possible al Qaeda plots, told interrogators about the alleged dirty
bomb plan in general terms and did not name individuals, sources said. Al Muhajir and
his associate were not considered part of Zubaida\'s inner circle, officials said,
adds the W. Post.
\"He described this guy only generically, probably in a way he didn\'t expect would
lead us to him,\" one senior official said. \"But based on other information we had
developed, we were able to track him down.\" The CIA provided the principal
information that led law enforcement to al Muhajir, sources said. The information
included other interrogations and captured documents, but did not involve electronic
intercepts or foreign intelligence services.
However, some of the aspects of Al Muhajir\'s criminal past and his travels have not
yet come to light. For example, when was the American passport issued to him and under
what name_Jose Padilla or Abdullah al Muhajir, was the change of name officially
documented, if so when, and whether Visas of countries he visited, specially Pakistan
and Afghanistan were issued by their respective embassies in DC or in some other
country.
Experts on terrorism are also interested to know what role Pakistani intelligence
agencies played when he was roaming in Karachi, Lahore and Afghanistan. Analysts opine
that, over all the case does not seems to be as simple as presented, although it has
created quiet a dramatic spectre of fear and anxiety in the public.
Source: Pakistani Newspaper
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