After Mr. Padilla was arrested in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago , John Ashcroft , then the attorney general , interrupted a trip to Moscow to announce on television that the authorities had foiled an effort by Mr. Padilla and other Qaeda operatives to detonate a radioactive or '' dirty '' bomb on American streets .
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