looks a lot like John Doe #2 from the Oklahoma City bombing?

Take a look

Padilla:  
[img]http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2002-06/3438317.jpg[/img]

John Doe #2:
[img]http://www.hallindseyoracle.com/images/articles/johndoe.jpg[/img]

Care, probably.
Connect ? Are you kidding ?
These idiots can't even play connect 4.

here's an editorial I wrote to my local newspaper about this guy.

The debate over the “dirty bomb” suspect, US born Jose Padilla, is fueled mainly over misunderstanding the Constitution.  It centers around whether his Constitutional rights are being violated by declaring him an “enemy combatant” and holding him indefinitely awaiting a military trial.   Some argue that he should not receive Constitutional protections because his is a suspected terrorist and enemy.  They are wrong.  The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in part to protect man’s God-given rights.  These rights were based simply on the quality of being human, so they apply to everybody, citizen, alien, and enemy.  We do not and should not base these human rights any other qualifier.  It is evil to deprive Jose Padilla of these rights for any reason.  However, those that argue that he should be treated the same as any other criminal are also wrong.  During times of war, the Constitution grants certain exceptions and revisions to those rights as need requires (Art 1 sec 9, Amend. 5).  Enemy soldiers are too great a risk to be treated as common criminals.  Their human rights are protected; the details just aren’t the same.  Despite the confusion over his status, Padilla’s natural rights should not be violated, and we should take this opportunity to educate ourselves on the Constitution.

That stirs the pot!

My uneasiness level is rising the more these pieces to the puzzle seem to surface.

Somebody do me a favor and refute all of this.  I'd rather not go where this is leading.

But there is freedom in Truth, so let's have it.

At least the FBI troll's are learning something
important, it seems, now.

according to this article [url]http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-padilla061202.story?coll=sfla%2Dhome%2Dheadlines[/url] he was out of jail and converted to Islam before Jan 1994.

still waiting for somebody to shut this down with some evidence that breaks these interesting connections.

[url]http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=124073[/url]

Wow!  If so many people have tagged the similarity, maybe the feds might look into it and give an answer.
Anybody seen this story in network news or radio?

I've heard conspiracy theories way before 9-11 that muslim extremist may have been involved in OKC.

With those side by side sketch and pic of Padilla, this might expain some things as to why the FBI isn't giving him a court appearance.

But there's another thread for that subject!

He's 31 now, so he was 24 back in '95.

I went looking for the sketch on the web just to confirm that it was the actual skecth of John Doe #2 and not someone playing games.

The only sketch I could find had John Doe #2 wearing a baseball cap, however every thing else seemed exactly the same.

Something else I came across while doing a search was this: (which I think someone else already mentioned)

[b]In her new book, By Blood Betrayed: My Life With Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh, Lana Padilla recounts an incident which occurred on November 22, 1994. Terry Nichols had just spent two weeks at her home in Las Vegas visiting Josh. Padilla explains that she had allowed him to stay there because she believed him to be broke. Besides, he was rarely underfoot since he and Josh were usually "doing 'guy' things ... like hunting, fishing, and occasionally going to Kingman [Arizona] to visit Tim [McVeigh] and other ex-Army buddies."

On that day, Padilla had driven Nichols to Las Vegas' McCarran Airport for a flight to Los Angeles and a final destination of Cebu City in the Philippines. Nichols gave her a folded brown paper bag and told her, "If I'm not back in sixty days, open it and follow the instructions." Those ominous words, together with Nichols' melancholic behavior and Josh's reaction as they drove away from the airport, were cause for alarm. "I'm never going to see my dad again," Josh sobbed.[/b]

From: [url]www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1995/vo11no26/vo11no26_okc.htm[/url]

So the question is, are these Padilla's actually related in any way?