MIAMI AP – A jury went behind closed doors Wednesday to begin deliberations in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants on charges of operating a support cell for Islamic terrorists worldwide, including al-Qaida.

An ethnically diverse panel of seven men and five women spent the past three months hearing from witnesses and listening to dozens of phone conversations intercepted by the FBI, most of them in Arabic, from an investigation spanning 1993 to 2001.