{"id":1498,"date":"2002-06-14T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T06:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2002-06-14T01:05:01","modified_gmt":"2002-06-14T06:05:01","slug":"motives_questioned_in_dirty_bomber_detainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/motives_questioned_in_dirty_bomber_detainment\/","title":{"rendered":": Motives Questioned in &#8216;Dirty Bomber&#8217; Detainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The cracks started to show just a day after Attorney General John Ashcroft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fwar_comments.php%3Fid%3D508_0_14_0_C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> the arrest of aspiring \u201cdirty bomber\u201d Jose Padilla (also known as Abdullah al Muhajir). After labelling him an \u201cenemy combatant\u201d and whisking him off to a military brig, more details emerged \u2013 that the attack was \u201cplotted,\u201d not \u201cplanned\u201d (i.e., discussed only), the arrest was made May 8th (with no reason given for the month delay in announcing it), and that the US is more interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020612%2Fap_wo_en_po%2Fus_terror_arrest_15\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">questioning him<\/a> than trying him, either in a military or civil court (he\u2019s still an enemy combatant, of course). The backtracking was so odd that reports of Ashcroft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2002%2F06%2F12%2Fopinion%2Fmeyer%2Fmain512021.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">being chastised<\/a> by the White House for exaggerating the threat soon emerged. While acknowledging that Padilla may certainly be guilty of <i>something<\/i>, civil libertarians and Padilla\u2019s attorney Donna Newman were alarmed at not only the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fusatoday%2F20020613%2Fts_usatoday%2F4190021\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">weak defense<\/a>, but the tacit admission that the arrest was a legally dubious <i>prima facie<\/i> action (unlike that afforded to fellow citizen John Walker). Meanwhile, the media is effectively distracted by Padilla\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020613%2Fap_wo_en_po%2Fus_terror_arrest_profile_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">early interest in Islam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fusatoday%2F20020612%2Fen_usatoday%2F4185697\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dirty bomb scenarios<\/a> (the San Francisco Chronicle showed a map of a new potential \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fobject.cgi%3Fobject%3D%2Fchronicle%2Fpictures%2F2002%2F06%2F11%2Fba_dirtybombgrf.jpg%26paper%3Dchronicle%26file%3DMN8432.DTL%26directory%3D%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2002%2F06%2F11%26type%3Dnews\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ground zero<\/a>\u201d in that city). Look out\u2026 dirty bomb at 10, news at 11.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Abdullah al Muhajir may have had evil intentions, the lengths to which the government has gone to isolate him (and admit a lack of evidence) leave many startled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Motives Questioned in &#8216;Dirty Bomber&#8217; Detainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While Abdullah al Muhajir may have had evil intentions, the lengths to which the government has gone to isolate him (and admit a lack of evidence) leave many startled.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/motives_questioned_in_dirty_bomber_detainment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Motives Questioned in &#8216;Dirty Bomber&#8217; 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