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Scope and Contents Well, the latest terror headlines brought dread; another U.S. citizen has been detained and accused of collaborating with al-Qaeda. Among Latinos that dread went even deeper when it was revealed that the accused 31 year old was Jose Padilla, a Puerto Rican born in New York and raised in Chicago. Padilla had been held by the FBI for a month before details of his detention were made public. According to authorities Padilla is a former gang member who converted to Islam and took on the name...