Jose Padilla, a man the government said was an al-Qaeda wannabe was found guilty on three counts of terrorism conspiracy charges yesterday: The government’s chief evidence was a faded application form that prosecutors said Mr. Padilla, 36, filled out to attend a Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. The jurors, seven men and five women from Miami-Dade County, would not speak publicly at the courthouse and left through a side entrance. But one juror, who asked that her name not be used, said later in a telephone interview that she had all but made up her mind before deliberations began. “We had to be sure,” the juror said in Spanish. “We wanted to make sure we went through all the evidence. But the evidence was strong, and we all agreed on that.” Indeed, Padilla's fingerprints were all over that "faded" application to join al-Qaeda. And there was plenty of other evdidence as well including a trip Padilla took to Pakistan where he met...(Read Full Post)