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Apr 18, 2008 12:41 pm US/Eastern

Convicted Terrorist Heading To "Supermax" Prison

Serving a 17-year prison sentence

MIAMI (CBS4) ― Convicted terrorist Jose Padilla has a new address, a federal prison in Colorado known as "Supermax." He will spend the next 17 years at Supermax.

The facility is the holds some of the most notorious criminals including: Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and Eric Rudolph, who bombed the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Padilla was convicted last August of three terrorist-related charges. He had been held for the previous three years as an "enemy combatant." Padilla was suspected of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb in the U.S. Those charges were later dropped.

Padilla is scheduled for relate on February 9, 2021.

(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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