In the latest on this trend...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/21/pa...ies&eref=yahoo
Judge drops Padilla terror charge
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a "dirty bomb" suspect and detained as an "enemy combatant."
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This follows the other 'warnings' they used to raise the 'alert' system, which so far has been raised over a few children with similar names to 'people of interest' and now the second case, which charges were dropped, that the current admin used to raise the terror level in conjunction with bad news.