CIA worried case would expose prison network: “The Bush administration decided not to charge Jose Padilla with planning to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in a US city because the evidence against him was extracted using torture on members of al-Qaida, it was claimed yesterday.

Mr Padilla, a US citizen who had been held for more than three years as an ‘enemy combatant’ in a military prison in North Carolina, was indicted on Tuesday on the lesser charges of supporting terrorism abroad.” (Guardian.UK)