US says Padilla plotted to blow up high-rises

By Charlie Savage

Globe Staff / June 2, 2004

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WASHINGTON -- Suspected terrorist Jose Padilla was actively engaged in an Al Qaeda plot to simultaneously blow up multiple high-rise apartment buildings inside the United States in the months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Deputy Attorney General James Comey said yesterday, laying out the newly declassified information from interrogations of the American detainee and other accused terrorists. (Full Article: 1091 Words)