In an effort to maintain its media blitz to scare US citizens into accepting adeveloping police state and to bury all the emerging evidence of its own criminal negligence in 9/11, the BushAdministration has unveiled an alleged al-Qaeda agent who plotted to unleash a "dirty bomb" on USsoil. Although arrested on May 8 on his return to Chicago from Pakistan, an American citizen, Jose Padilla,aka Abdullah al-Mujahir, is now languishing as an "enemy combatant" in a military prison in SouthCarolina. While the allegations about Padilla/al-Mujahir's connections to al-Qaeda and the "dirtybomb" plot are yet to be proved, the timing and story about the plot and the plotter raise importantquestions about the present motivations of the Bush Administration and US government's policies in the pastand future.