BREAKING NEWS SOURCES: Verdict Reached in Padilla Terror Case = GUILTY [View All]

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Verdict Reached in Padilla Terror Case
By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 16, 2007; 1:11 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601009.html

MIAMI -- Jurors reached a verdict Thursday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants charged with supporting al-Qaida and other violent Islamic extremist groups overseas.

The verdict was to be read at 2 p.m. before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about a day and a half following a three-month trial.

Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi face possible sentences of life in prison if convicted of all three charges in the case.

The three are accused of being part of a North American support cell that provided supplies, money and recruits to groups of Islamic extremists. The defense contended they were trying to help persecuted Muslims in war zones with relief and humanitarian aid.

Padilla was first detained in 2002 because of much more sensational accusations. The Bush administration portrayed Padilla, a U.S. citizen and Muslim convert, as a committed terrorist who was part of an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the U.S. .....

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http://www.cnn.com/
"Jose Padilla is found guilty on charges he conspired to kill people in an overseas jihad and to fund and support overseas terrorism."