[GretchenM]

Please note how the caption source (I think it was Reuters) put the word terror in single quote marks: "First lady Laura Bush thanked US troops based in Germany for their work in the war on 'terror,' as anti-war protesters across the country geared up for her husband's arrival."

Attorney Edward MacMahon, Jr. speaks about the charges against his client, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen, outside the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday. Abu Ali, a former Virginia high school valedictorian who was detained in Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Attorney Ashraf Nubani speaks about the charges against his client, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

[Wolfstar]

Gretchen, I'm glad you covered the assassination plot in this edition of the Dose. It's a story that we should not overlook.

[prairiebreeze]

note how the caption source (I think it was Reuters) put the word terror in single quote marks: "First lady Laura Bush thanked US troops based in Germany for their work in the war on 'terror,' as anti-war protesters across the country geared up for her husband's arrival."

Yes, well I consider Reuters a fairly questionable "news source". So I guess we are even.

I've been reading Captains Quarters Blog tonight and it has some VERY interesting information on that high school that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was "valedictorian" at.

It seems that even CAIR and the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism (who aren't exactly allies) have called for certain books to be taken out of the high schools cirriculum as they incite terrorism and Islamic extremism. The school is well known for it's radical politics and lost it's accreditation with an association of private schools because of it.

So take the "valedictorian" credit to this little terrist creep with a HUGE grain of salt.

Good evening everybody. I'm off to look at the rest of the pictures.