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MIAMI — A federal judge refused Tuesday to rule out possible life prison sentences for Jose Padilla and two co-defendants convicted of terrorism conspiracy and material-support charges.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke found that enhanced terrorism penalties could be applied to Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, who were convicted in August of being part of a North American support cell for al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups.
Padilla, 37, a U.S. citizen, was held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant after his May 2002 arrest on an alleged plot to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in the U.S. Those charges were dropped, and Padilla was added to the Miami terrorism support case.
