New Evidence Surfaces In Jose Padilla Case

New court filings say a key piece of evidence in the case against alleged terrorism operative Jose Padilla came from an Afghan man who told the C.I.A he found it in an al-Qaida safehouse.

The filing says a man drove up to the agency’s installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a pickup truck containing “stacks of papers and other office materials” found in the house occupied by a group of Arabs.

Among the Arabic documents was a blue binder containing dozens of forms that U-S officials say were essentially applications for al-Qaida terrorism training camps. Prosecutors say one of those forms was filled out and signed with a name Padilla had used as one of his aliases.