In this Jan. 5, 2006, file photo, Jose Padilla, center, is escorted by federal marshalls on his arrival in Miami. It's been nearly five years since then AG John Ashcroft declared the U.S. had thwarted an al-Qaida plot to detonate a "dirty bomb."

First published in the August 16, 2007, 9:35 p.m. edition

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