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charges against 110 individuals (60 of whom were in See also CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY; FEDERAL BUREAU
federal custody at the time). Likewise, the OF INVESTIGATION; ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI; PATRIOT ACT;
Immigration and Naturalization Service detained RICHARD REID; AHMED RESSAM
more than 550. Critics charge that Ashcroft’s
program harks back to J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign Further Reading
against domestic terrorism and subversion in the Raven-Hansen, Peter. “Bringing Terrorists to Justice Under
1950s and 1960s. Rule of Law.” U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, November
Ashcroft has taken control of the terrorism inves- 2002. http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1101/ijpe/
tigation from the Southern District of New York pj63law.htm.
U.S. Department of Justice: War on Terrorism. http://www.
and has moved many of the responsibilities
usdoj.gov/terrorismaftermath.html.
to Washington, D.C., with trials to be held in
Alexandria, Virginia.
The use of military tribunals to try Al Qaeda DEV SOL. See REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S
terrorists and foreign nationals will free prosecutors LIBERATION FRONT.
of some constraints of civilian criminal courts
(e.g., admission of evidence). However, Zacarias
Moussaoui, the first man charged in connection with DFLP. See DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE
the September 11 attacks, will be tried in a criminal
court in June 2003, on charges of conspiring with Al LIBERATION OF PALESTINE.
Qaeda to kill large numbers of Americans. John
Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, was to
have been tried in August 2002. However, a plea DHKP/C. See REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S
agreement between Lindh and the U.S. government LIBERATION FRONT.
was reached in July 2002 after intense negotiations.
Under the terms of the agreement, Lindh pled guilty DIRTY BOMBS. See NUCLEAR TERRORISM.
to two charges that he aided the Taliban and carried
explosives in doing so. Other counts—alleging that
he had conspired to kill Americans, and had assisted DOHRN, BERNARDINE (1942– )
terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda—were
dropped. Lindh was sentenced to serve two consecu-
tive ten-year sentences. Richard Reid, the third Al Former member of the violent revolutionary
Qaeda operative charged since September 2001, organization Weatherman, Bernardine Dohrn led the
pleaded guilty to eight charges related to his attempt “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago and was once a noto-
to blow up a transathantic flight with explosives rious fugitive on the FBI’s most wanted list.
hidden in his shoe. Prosecutors will seek a sentence While in law school at the University of Chicago,
of 60 years to life at a sentencing hearing set for Dohrn had the opportunity to work with Martin Luther
January 2003. King, Jr., toward alleviating the poverty in Chicago.
In September 2002, five U.S. citizens were arrested She also worked closely with the civil rights group
in a Buffalo, New York, suburb, on charges of pro- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
viding material support or resources to designated for- Her activism led her to become involved with an orga-
eign terrorist organizations. (A sixth man was arrested nization called Students for a Democratic Society
in Bahrain.) The government released the names of (SDS), an activist group originally focused on promot-
the men, all U.S. citizens. The accused have access to ing civil rights and ending the Vietnam War that
their attorneys, and the charges against them will be became increasingly radical as the 1960s progressed.
adjudicated in a civilian court. After law school, Dohrn traveled around the United
Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla, also U.S. citizens, States to recruit members for SDS. One of SDS’s
remained in military prison. Hamdi was being held as largest protests occurred at Columbia University in
an “enemy combatant,” while Padilla is suspected of 1968. Students had discovered that the university was
being involved in a plot to explode a “dirty” bomb in secretly doing war research for the government, and
an American city. they staged a riot. The police were called in to remove