WASHINGTON (AP) - Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member held as a terrorism suspect for two years, sought to blow up hotels and apartment buildings in the United States in addition to planning an attack with a "dirty bomb" radiological device, the government said Tuesday.

The plot thickens: It was later determined that he (they) wanted to “do” high rise apartment buildings by renting a couple of apartments in each; sealing ‘em off, filling ‘em up with natural gas, and detonating ‘em with a explosive device after 24 hours. Man, that is a lot of gas, and would be easy to do with a little training, and some planning. Just mask, or block, the smell.

Anyway, we’ve got to start thinking “outside the box”

We should never underestimate this scum.