Reading this gave me a renewed sense of hope. And it put a smile on my face. I may have giggled a little bit too!

If the man really is guilty of everything Bush and the prosecution alleges, then they should have brought forth evidence. They didn’t though. And probably because it really doesn’t exist.

Jose Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison

Justice Dept. Pushed for Life Sentence for Alleged Dirty Bomb Plotter

Jose Padilla, who was detained as an enemy combatant for 3 1/2 years for allegedly plotting to set off a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced today to just over 17 years in prison on separate terrorism-related charges in Miami.

The sentence marks another major setback in a terrorism prosecution for the Justice Department, which had urged U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke to sentence Padilla to life in prison for being part of an extremist cell that gave support to al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups.
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Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested returning to the United States at O’Hare International Airport in 2002 and was soon designated an enemy combatant by President Bush. The case was announced at the time with great fanfare by then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and other Bush administration officials, who portrayed Padilla as a dangerous and high-ranking al-Qaeda operative who was working on a plot to detonate a “dirty bomb” inside the United States.
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Defense attorneys said Padilla and the other defendants were working to provide humanitarian aid to persecuted Muslims in other parts of the world. Federal prosecutors, on the other hand, portrayed them as willing participants in efforts to spread “violent jihad.”

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