Padilla case is light on details

From the Miami Herald:

"A dozen Miami-Dade County jurors to be selected Tuesday for the Jose Padilla terrorism trial will soon hear about a U.S.-based mission to carry out ''violent jihad'' overseas, including evidence of his al Qaeda application.  What jurors won't hear are the damning details of Padilla's suspected plots with al Qaeda operatives to plant radiological ''dirty bombs'' and to blow up apartment buildings in major U.S. cities.  That evidence -- along with incriminating testimony from al Qaeda members detained at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- won't be introduced at the federal trial that gets under way with opening statements on May 14."  [RJ]