So now you need to fill out an application to be a terrorist?

[CatWoman]

How does one go about acquiring/listing references?

Are you a "team player" who blows up embassies well with others?

The FBI found Padilla's application to the al Qaeda training camp. They found it in a binder that contained 100 other such applications, type-written each with the title at the top, "Mujahideen Identification Form/New Applicant Form."

Padilla's application was dated July 24th of 2000 and bears one of his aliases, Abu Abdullah Muhajir (ph). It bears his date of birth, October 18th, 1970. It shows that he is an American citizen; that he speaks Spanish and English and is proficient at Arabic; that he has traveled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Padilla has admitted that after filling out his application, he attended the Al Farouq (ph) al Qaeda training camp in September and October of 2000, using the name Abdullah al-Espani (ph).

Padilla says he went to the camp with the understanding that he would be sent to Chechnya to fight for jihad, although he recognized that the recruits of al Qaeda were offered no guarantees.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/01/comey.padilla.transcript/

[charlie105]

1. Same as when you fill out 'Democrat' in the voter registration form!

As per Ann Coulter, Rush, Savage etc.

[papau]

2. You have the FBI and CIA do a background check - hire only the best

Seems like something a reasonable employer would do.

:-)

[Proud 2B A Peacenik]

3. According to the PATRIOT Act

I believe that you are a registered terrorist if you are a registered Democrat

[matcom]

4. i wonder if you also have to take a piss test

:shrug:

[charlie105]

5. As in, "would you piss if threatened by chickenhawks?"

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[HawkerHurricane]

6. Army application form.

Since the Mujadeen were an army long before they were a terrorist outfit.

Probably, the CIA required the paperwork way back in the 1980's before they gave the unit money to buy equipment for the new guy.

[jesus]

7. Oh come on...

This one comes straight out of Blazing Saddles.

"Ooh....Kinky!"

[radwriter0555]

8. Isn't that HYSTERICAL? I saw that, and literally laughed out loud

when I saw that.

As I said yesterday, this whole piece of crap STINKS.

On top of the fact that padilla denies ALL Of it; at this point it's ALL fluff and bs by the bush regime.

[AZCat]

9. He won't have a chance to deny it...

I don't think the Bushies are ever going to let him see the light of day.

From the link at Catwoman root post:

QUESTION: So at this point, you have no plans to present any of this to a grand jury?

COMEY: No, we do not have any plans to present this, the information I've given you today, to a grand jury. I don't believe that we could use this information in a criminal case, because we deprived him of access to his counsel and questioned him in the absence of counsel.

This was done not to make -- the questioning of Jose Padilla, something else I should point out, was not undertaken to try and make a criminal case against Jose Padilla. It was done to find out the truth about what he knew about al Qaeda and threats to the United States.

We could care less about a criminal case when right before us is the need to protect American citizens and to save lives.

We'll figure out down the road what we do with Jose Padilla. What the president wanted to do and what was done was find out what he knows, figure out how it links up with other things that we know and give us a picture of what the enemy's planning.
<snip>

So they aren't even planning on presenting a criminal case against him? And regarding caring about criminal cases - isn't Mr. Padilla an American citizen whose life (and rights) deserve protecting also?

I guess "down the road" they'll find some lonely spot to dig a nice unmarked grave, and bury this potential "problem".

Extra note: If you read the whole transcript, several times Comey dances around the question of other American citizens being held besides Hamdi and Padilla. I would not be surprised at all if there were others (shades of Berg).