Tuesday, June 11, 2002

The Mighty Wurlitzer works all too well.

Attorney General John Ashcroft and other U.S. officials said Padilla was allegedly plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty" bomb in the U.S., probably in Washington D.C.

But CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports some U.S. officials now admit they're not sure what Padilla's plans were when he returned to the U.S. last month. And any plot, including possibly exploding a radiation bomb in Washington D.C., was in the "initial planning stages."


He could have been planning to set off a dirty bomb. Or, maybe grow watermelons. Who can say?