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US citizen Jose Padilla has been found guilty of plotting to kill people overseas and supporting terrorism.
His two co-defendants, Lebanese-born Palestinian Adham Amin Hassoun and Jordanian-born Kifah Wael Jayyousi, were convicted on the same counts.
All three denied charges of conspiring to murder in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Bosnia and elsewhere from 1993 to 2001. They now face possible life in jail.
Padilla was once suspected of, but not charged with, plotting a "dirty bomb".
The three men are due to be sentenced on 5 December, the judge in Miami said.
The jurors took only a day-and-a-half to find them guilty on all three counts against them.
They were convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim; conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism; and providing material support for terrorism.
Padilla's mother, Estela Lebron, said she expected her son's lawyers to appeal against his conviction...
Unfortunately, the high-handed decision to imprison him for years without charge or trial as an enemy combatant has tainted this trial and consequently the verdict. Of all the things the Bush administration has done to damage this country, tarnishing the law is (IMO) among the very worst.
Mac
US citizen Jose Padilla has been found guilty of plotting to kill people overseas and supporting terrorism.
His two co-defendants, Lebanese-born Palestinian Adham Amin Hassoun and Jordanian-born Kifah Wael Jayyousi, were convicted on the same counts.
All three denied charges of conspiring to murder in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Bosnia and elsewhere from 1993 to 2001. They now face possible life in jail.
Padilla was once suspected of, but not charged with, plotting a "dirty bomb".
The three men are due to be sentenced on 5 December, the judge in Miami said.
The jurors took only a day-and-a-half to find them guilty on all three counts against them.
They were convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim; conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism; and providing material support for terrorism.
Padilla's mother, Estela Lebron, said she expected her son's lawyers to appeal against his conviction...
Unfortunately, the high-handed decision to imprison him for years without charge or trial as an enemy combatant has tainted this trial and consequently the verdict. Of all the things the Bush administration has done to damage this country, tarnishing the law is (IMO) among the very worst.
Mac
