http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/15855422.htm Jury pool for Padilla terrorism case will start at 3,000 An unusually large group of 3,000 Miami-area residents will be the starting point for jury selection in the highly publicized terrorism support trial next year of alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two others. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said Thursday that jury duty letters will go out in mid-November to start a process that will ultimately produce 12 jurors and several alternates to try the case, currently scheduled to begin Jan. 22. The trial is expected to last several months. "I don't think we should wait until the last moment," Cooke said at a hearing. Court officials had intended to start with a jury pool of 2,300 - still several hundred more than other recent high-profile cases - but Cooke increased it to 3,000, because "we are now talking about a trial on a global scale." Padilla is a 36-year-old former Chicago gang member and U.S. citizen. He is charged along with Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, both 44, with being part of a North American terror support cell that supported Islamic extremism worldwide. All three have pleaded not guilty. Padilla was held for 3 1/2 years without charge as an enemy combatant, with U.S. officials initially claiming he plotted to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major U.S. city. Although the criminal charges do not mention those allegations, Padilla's name is linked worldwide with the words "dirty bomb" and there was intense publicity about whether the Bush administration had the authority to detain him for so long. The Miami criminal case has also received extensive local media coverage. Prospective jurors will be questioned closely about their knowledge of Padilla's case, according to a draft questionnaire. They will also be asked about their opinions about Muslims and Arabs, and whether "Islam endorses violence to a greater or lesser extent" than other religions. The jury process is getting started even though trial may be delayed several months while prosecutors appeal Cooke's dismissal of a key terrorism conspiracy count, which she concluded repeated other charges in the indictment. It could take months for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue its ruling. "We are going to proceed with all of our pretrial matters," Cooke said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
