Comments on: Jose Padilla: More Sinned Against Than Sinning

By: NDAA Martial Law - The Red Pill Network

NDAA Martial Law - The Red Pill Network — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:15:52 +0000

[...] combatant” in the war on terror. Padilla was held for 3 1/2 years in isolation, tortured and given, according to his lawyer , some kind of hallucinogenic drug such as LSD. His attorney, Andrew Patel, said that after a time, [...]

By: Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Enemy Combatant”? | Amauta

Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Enemy Combatant”? | Amauta — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:02:33 +0000

[...] In the case of Jose Padilla, who was held in strict solitary confinement for 21 months, the effects of his isolation were so intense that it has been reported that he literally lost his mind (his warders described him as “so docile and inactive that he could be mistaken for ‘a piece of furniture’”) [Further details of Padilla's harrowing mental collapse can be found here]. [...]

By: Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Enemy Combatant”? « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:12:44 +0000

By: On Bush’s Waterboarding Claims, UK Media Loses Its Moral Compass by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:28:38 +0000

[...] bomb plot” to attack New York — in which British resident Binyam Mohamed and US citizen Jose Padilla were implicated (by Abu Zubaydah), and which had involved nothing more than some casual browsing on [...]

By: Fahad Hashmi And Terrorist Hysteria In US Courts

Fahad Hashmi And Terrorist Hysteria In US Courts — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:49:23 +0000

[...] held in conditions that are only marginally less severe those under which US “enemy combatants” Jose Padilla, Ali al-Marri and Yaser Hamdi were held during the Bush administration, when each was imprisoned [...]

By: Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant,” Receives Eight-Year Sentence + Ali al-Marri’s Statement In Court by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:01:30 +0000

[...] extra-legal detention and torture — like those endured by two other Americans, Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla — are a black mark on America’s recent history, and it has always amazed me that even Americans [...]

By: UK Judges Order Release Of Details About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed By US Agents by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:39:42 +0000

[...] petition, by dropping the central allegation against him — that he was involved, with US citizen Jose Padilla, in a plot to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in New York — and, in November, the Defense [...]

By: Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged As US “Enemy Combatant” Pleads Guilty by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 02 May 2009 02:32:18 +0000

[...] in CIA custody, was shared only by the other two US “enemy combatants,” Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla, and a handful of prisoners in Guantánamo. His isolation was such that, according to a psychiatric [...]

By: Why the U.S. Under Obama Is Still a Dictatorship | Congress Check

Why the U.S. Under Obama Is Still a Dictatorship | Congress Check — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:51:30 +0000

[...] got cold feet, and moved Padilla into the federal court system, where, in August 2007, he was convicted of providing material support for terrorism in a lopsided trial — in which all mention of his [...]

By: Abu Zubaydah: The Futility Of Torture and A Trail of Broken Lives by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:39:15 +0000

[...] only useful lead cited — that of Jose Padilla, who had reportedly planned to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in New York — is itself [...]