1.0link82703<![CDATA[Why Jose Padilla's 17-Year Prison Sentence Should Shock and Disgust all Americans]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/why-jose-padillas-17year-_b_82703.htmlThe news that US citizen Jose Padilla has received a prison sentence of 17 years and four months should provoke outrage in the United States, although it is unlikely that there will be much more than a whimper of dissent.
The former gang member and convert to Islam - whose arrest in May 2002 was trumpeted by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as that of a "known terrorist," who was "exploring a plan" to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a...