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Two reporters facing up to 18 months in jail for refusing to testify about their sources gained some unlikely allies yesterday. The attorneys general of 34 states and the District of Columbia filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court supporting the reporters, Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine. The brief urged the court to hear the reporters' case and argued that the absence of federal protection for journalists and their sources undermined the laws of the 49 states that do offer protection.

Wahabi Watch - Florida Trail Of Terror By Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer From dirty bomb plotter Jose Padilla - employed at a Ft. Lauderdale Taco Bell - to Padilla’s alleged partner - Adnan El Shukrijumah [apparently fingered by recently captured senior al-Qaeda planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] - who was last sighted at a Subway sandwich shop in Tampa 2001, the trail of terror continues in Florida. Fourteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers either came from or through Florida – The 3 main ringleaders - the "pilots” - Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi & Ziad Jarrah and 11...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 29, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Two Muslim men plotted with an informant to bomb electrical transformers, a National Guard armory and Jews in South Florida, hoping to start a Holy War, government documents allege. Pakistani immigrants Imran Mandhai, 19, and Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, 24, were ordered held without bail Tuesday after U.S. Magistrate Lurana Snow reviewed transcripts of conversations they had with an informant in March and April 2001. Snow rejected arguments by Mandhai's and Jokhan's attorneys that they were bumbling amateurs whose militant fantasies were inflamed by the government informant, identified only...

Pakistani accused of "jihad' in Miami jail MIAMI, March 26 (Reuters) - A Pakistani man identified in a published report as a suspect in a plot to blow up power plants and other sites in south Florida was being held on Tuesday for deportation, a U.S. immigration official said. Citing law enforcement sources, The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Imran Mandhai, 19, of Hollywood, Florida, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service about a month ago. The law enforcement officials said Mandhai conspired last March and April to acquire guns and explosives for a "jihad" (holy...