The process these guys go through is a lot like what the commies used to do to destabilize countries, via infiltration, See the bottom of the post at Michelles blog. 

Update: Guilty on all counts.

The charges:Count 1 - Conspiracy to Murder, Kidnap, and Maim Persons in a Foreign Country as part of a conspiracy to advance violent jihad
Count 2 - Conspiracy to Provide Material Support for Terrorists
Count 3 - Material Support for Terrorists
Counts 4 and 5 are against Hassoun for unlawful possession of a weapon and making a false statement
Counts 6 through 10 are against Hassoun for multiple charges of perjury
Count 11 is against Hassoun for obstruction A verdict was reached Thursday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants charged with supporting al-Qaida and other violent Islamic extremist groups overseas.
The jury verdict was scheduled to be read at 2 p.m. EDT before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke in Miami’s downtown federal courthouse, according to an announcement from her chambers. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about a day and a half following a three-month trial.

Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi face possible life in prison if convicted of all three charges in the case.

The Bush administration portrayed Padilla, a 36-year-old U.S. citizen and Muslim convert, as a committed al-Qaida terrorist and cast his 2002 arrest at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport as an important victory in the war against terrorism less than a year after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The charges brought in civilian court, however, were a pale shadow of the initial “dirty bomb” claims in part because Padilla was interrogated about the plot in military custody with no lawyer present and was not read his Miranda rights.

Padilla’s attorneys fought for years to get his case into federal court, and he was finally added to the Miami terrorism support indictment in late 2005 just as the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to consider President Bush’s authority to continue detaining him. Padilla had lived in South Florida in the 1990s and was supposedly recruited by Hassoun at a Broward County mosque to become a mujahedeen fighter.

The key piece of physical evidence was a five-page form Padilla supposedly filled out in July 2000 to attend an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan, which would link the other two defendants as well to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization

Update: Padilla is found guilty on all charges!!! Let the liberal whining begin!!!!

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/16/breaking-padilla-verdict-to-be-read-at-2pm-eastern/

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/08/16/verdict-reached-in-padilla-terror-case/

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/08/16/padilla-found-guilty/