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Intelligence, Not Prosecution, Is U.S. First Priority With Padilla
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
By SFC Kathleen T. Rhem
U.S. Army
American Forces Press Service

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NEW DELHI, India -- AFIS
The United States is more interested in extracting intelligence information than in prosecuting Jose Padilla, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.

Rumsfeld was speaking at a press conference in Doha, Qatar, during a brief stop in that Persian Gulf nation before arriving here.

Padilla, a U.S. citizen also known as Abdullah al Mujahir, was captured May 8 when he flew into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from Pakistan. The Justice Department transferred him June 10 to DoD custody. He's being held in a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C.
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2002 © The United States Department of Defense.

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