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Ranger would like to know how long Padilla was in Afghanistan and Pakistan while he was supposedly training as an al Qaida bad guy. This time frame would be instructive since extended training would be required to produce a useful asset. World-class terrorists are not trained overnight.
Padilla's fingerprints were on a document supposedly captured in Afghanistan. Since there was no chain of evidence, it is not fantastical to assume that prints could have been obtained while Padilla was in a drug-induced blackout while in the brig.
Several reports indicate that injections were used on Padilla while he was questioned. Since GWB had to win this one, planting evidence is just another "walk on the dark side." This is, after all, the same Department of Justice and FBI that recently had to pay a convicted person in Boston due to prosecutorial malfeasance. If the government will frame a gangster, then why not a terrorist?
But here is the key: Let us assume that Padilla was in fact an al-Qaida asset. If this is so, then the Padilla capture is good news. Look at how easily he was caught. They didn't even bother to scrub his passport or to have him alternate his itinerary to arrive in the U.S. from a less obvious country.
For example, his return flight could have terminated, say, in Toronto and trans ship to his final U.S. destination. This would have raised less flags.
If al-Qaida is so amateurish as to have enlistment forms in the first place that can be captured -- and especially so for an indigenous U.S. asset -- then they really are amateur hour- types. This should not be like applying for a job with Burger King, the sort of job which Mr. Padilla had held prior to his miraculous ascendancy in mental acuity. Further, no terrorist group is going to admit new members without extensive bona fides.
The entire Padilla scenario is a joke, or a hoax.
Take your pick.
Padilla's fingerprints were on a document supposedly captured in Afghanistan. Since there was no chain of evidence, it is not fantastical to assume that prints could have been obtained while Padilla was in a drug-induced blackout while in the brig.
Several reports indicate that injections were used on Padilla while he was questioned. Since GWB had to win this one, planting evidence is just another "walk on the dark side." This is, after all, the same Department of Justice and FBI that recently had to pay a convicted person in Boston due to prosecutorial malfeasance. If the government will frame a gangster, then why not a terrorist?
But here is the key: Let us assume that Padilla was in fact an al-Qaida asset. If this is so, then the Padilla capture is good news. Look at how easily he was caught. They didn't even bother to scrub his passport or to have him alternate his itinerary to arrive in the U.S. from a less obvious country.
For example, his return flight could have terminated, say, in Toronto and trans ship to his final U.S. destination. This would have raised less flags.
If al-Qaida is so amateurish as to have enlistment forms in the first place that can be captured -- and especially so for an indigenous U.S. asset -- then they really are amateur hour- types. This should not be like applying for a job with Burger King, the sort of job which Mr. Padilla had held prior to his miraculous ascendancy in mental acuity. Further, no terrorist group is going to admit new members without extensive bona fides.
The entire Padilla scenario is a joke, or a hoax.
Take your pick.
Labels: amateur terrorists, padilla
posted by rangeragainstwar at 12:08 AM
2 Comments:
i can only wonder what the stories will be when they come for us. for this to have happened to an american citizen, arrested on american soil means just that. it can happen to each and every one of us. if these reductions and erosions of our liberties are not turned back, it will happen to us. as GWB is so fond of saying about saddamn and ahmedinijad, "there is no appeasing tyrants."
word.
Minstrel Boy,
Just mind you don't get on his list of undesirables.
As a musician, I think they will always have need of you, as there will always be shindigs at the ranch fundraisers. But don't be playing any of that hippy music!
--Lisa
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