Text: Ashcroft Announces Arrest of 'Dirty Bomb' Plot Suspect (washingtonpost.com)

Notes from Ashcroft's statement: The terrorist was not an Arab-American, as I thought. He was born Jose Padilla and apparently converted in prison. He was arrested May 8th at O'Hare, and why this announcement was put off I don't know; perhaps until they had all the evidence, or (more disturbingly) not until they had tried to arrest his co-conspirators.