Topic: Jose Padilla

Appeals panel rules against 'enemy combatant'

SAMPSON Associated Press . A federal appeals panel has turned away efforts by Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen detained for nearly four years as an ...

Padilla Appeal Dismissed by Fourth Circuit

(Kenneth Anderson) . Although the big news today is the Supreme Court opinion in Jones, we also have the Fourth Circuit dismissing the Padilla...

Court says Padilla prison sentence too lenient

MIAMI (Reuters) - The 17-year prison sentence imposed in January 2008 on former Chicago gang member and convicted al Qaeda-linked terrorism supporter Jose Padilla was too lenient and he should face harsher punishment, a federal appeals court said on Monday.A three-judge panel ...
Prisons will keep turning some crooks into jihadists unless the government keeps closer tabs on rogue jailhouse clerics, experts told lawmakers on...

Cohen: Newt Gingrich, demagogue and liar

A Washington Post feature - "The Fact Checker" - is possibly the most powerful force for good since Clark Kent encountered a phone booth. The other...

S. Carolina judge dismisses Padilla torture lawsuit

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A federal judge in South Carolina on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a U.S. citizen claiming he was illegally detained and tortured in a military brig after being convicted of supporting terrorism.Federal judge Richard Mark ...

Today in History

Today in HistoryToday is Monday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2010. There are 39 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas ...

Jose Padilla

In August , 2007 , Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen hailing from Puerto Rico was convicted by a United States jury of conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim individuals overseas. Originally arrested at O'Hare Airport in 2005 on the suspicion that he ...
This is DISGRACEFUL (no other way to describe this).What Nidal Malik Hasan did was so horrifying that even his family is not standing in defense of him. "Jose Padilla, the owner of Padilla's apartment complex, said Hasan gave him two ...

SECURITY DETENTION TERRORISM AND THE PREVENTION IMPERATIVE

The article focuses on the effectiveness of the multi-prong approach used in addressing security detention, prevention attention and terrorism in the U.S. Ra- ther, this article will review the recent calls for a new system of preventive detention and the legal ...