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Al-Qaida detainee helped nab Padilla Prosecutors say he identified 'dirty bomb' suspect via photo The Associated Press Updated: 3:02 p.m. ET Nov 17, 2006 MIAMI - A senior al-Qaida member, held for years at an undisclosed overseas CIA prison, was a key source of information that led investigators to alleged terror operative Jose Padilla, federal prosecutors disclosed. The informant was Abu Zubaydah, who was transferred in September from the secret foreign prison to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Court papers filed Thursday say Zubaydahs role in the Padilla investigation was recently declassified along with that of a second Guantanamo Bay detainee identified as Binyam Muhammad. The pair provided information for a material witness warrant used to arrest Padilla in 2002 when he arrived at Chicagos OHare International Airport. Padilla, a 36-year-old U.S. citizen, is scheduled for trial Jan. 22 with two others on charges they were part of a North American terrorism support cell that provided money, supplies and recruits to Muslim extremist causes around the world. They have pleaded not guilty. Padilla was held without charges for 3½ years as an enemy combatant until he was added late last year to the existing Miami terrorism support case. The identities of Zubaydah and Muhammad were revealed for the first time by the government in the filing urging a federal judge not to throw out Padillas statements and other evidence seized during an FBI interview just prior to his arrest. Padillas lawyers argue the evidence should be suppressed because, among other things, Zubaydah and Muhammad may have been tortured and Zubaydah was being treated with medication for gunshot wounds that raises questions about his reliability. The government flatly rejects the allegations of torture. Zubaydah identified a passport photograph of Padilla in early 2002 and told interrogators that Padilla and Muhammad had been working on a plot to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb somewhere in the United States, prosecutor Stephanie Pell wrote. U.S. officials accused Padilla of such a plot after his arrest, but it is not part of the Miami indictment. Muhammad told investigators that he and Padilla researched the bomb plot and were trained in explosives wiring, but that al-Qaida leaders ultimately directed Padilla to return to the United States to conduct reconnaissance on behalf of al-Qaida within the United States, according to the court documents. © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15769080/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
