Padilla Government prosecutors have provided more details of their case against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen arrested May 8 and accused of planning to detonate a radioactive bomb. The government's sources who implicated Padilla remain confidential, but Padilla has been classified as an "enemy combatant," a legal status that does not allow him to challenge his arrest in court. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

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Government prosecutors have provided more details of their case against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen arrested May 8 and accused of planning to detonate a radioactive bomb. The government's sources who implicated Padilla remain confidential, but Padilla has been classified as an "enemy combatant," a legal status that does not allow him to challenge his arrest in court. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.