Terror suspect Padilla kept out of sight, but case is very visible

Posted on Sat, Jun. 14, 2003

BY STEVENSON SWANSON
Chicago Tribune

NEW YORK - (KRT) - Jose Padilla must have no idea how famous he has become in the last year.

Padilla, the former Chicago gang member who is suspected of plotting to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb," is being held incommunicado in a South Carolina navy brig. Since last June, he has had no contact with his family or his attorneys, and an appellate court order last week made it clear he faces several more months of isolation.