Virginia Man Charged With Conspiring to Assassinate President Bush

AP/ABC ^ | Feb 22, 2005 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

[SoFloFreeper]

Virginia man charged in alleged plot to assassinate Bush By MATTHEW BARAKAT

Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A former high school valedictorian in Virginia was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and conspiracy to support the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen, made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court. He claimed that he was tortured while detained in Saudi Arabia since June of 2003 and offered through his lawyer to show the judge his scars.

The indictment said that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified coconspirator discussed plans for Abu Ali to assassinate Bush. They discussed two scenarios, the indictment said, one in which Abu Ali "would get close enough to the president to shoot him on the street" and, alternatively, "an operation in which Abu Ali would detonate a car bomb."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

nice to have known you Harvey, check the birds on your way out...

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic J

[TaxRelief]

Looks like a real life "24" scenario.

That is such a racist comment...

lol

[techcor]

Looks like he popped back in for post 276 and 277 as Harvey2. Buh, bye Harvey2.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bye, HarveyBirdman.

"He's dead, Jim!"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping.

[cardinal4]

I'm waiting for CAIR to condemn this as a plot to make Islam look bad.

Its coming..

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent!

[TaxRelief]

Wouldn't you think a valedictorian would be smart enough not to get caught?

[Fiddlstix]

Thank you J

[LurkedLongEnough]

Next we'll hear that he was really kidnapped from Saudi Arabia and whisked to the US on a white nondescript jet owned by mysterious multiple Halliburton-related corporations.

[TaxRelief]

Do you consider yourself hateful bigots? No. Just honest folks who are unafraid of the "hate" police.

You have our sympathy; It must be difficult to be thought-controlled. Is this normal for people from your country? It's really sad that you've been taught to attribute every Iraqi death to GWB. Are you truly unaware that people disappeared regularly, daily and nightly, before we ever even got there?

You must be proud to be a citizen of a country that was willing to sit back and watch a despot murder his own people. Do you also think we should limit policing in poor black neighborhoods as long as it is only black on black crime? It's just more of that great "non-interference policy".

[clintonh8r]

I think the ACLU will contend that this is covered by the First Amendment.....

[TaxRelief]

In other places, namecalling may be considered "discussion". In the states, we consider it pointless, distracting and rude.

Get ready for another ZAP!

[expatpat]

Those Irish-American members of the IRA are really dangerous.

[montag813]

YOWZER! And when will the MSM report this? And on his "religion"?

Still a total MSM blackout on this. Nowhere to be found on MSNBC's website!

[cardinal4]

To the guy who said Muslims congregated in D.C. to committ terrorism. That makes no sense. Sure, the terrorists may do that but everyone knows that only a small fraction of 1.2 billion Muslims are terrorists. How many have been arrested on terrorism in that area? 5? 6? Out of tens of thousands? Most of them are there for the same reason there are other immigrants there and immigrants tend to congregate near urban areas.

Its the stubborn, unrelenting silence from that 1.2 billion in the face of Beslan, 9-11, Madrid, Bali and and a whole host of atrocities in the name of Allah, that turns normal, reasonable people to conclude they are all suspect until proven otherwise. Whining to the contrary by the likes of the MSM and Ibrahim Hooper does nothing to to counter this view of Islam and its followers..

[Peach]

A great collection of links indeed.

I received a freeper's book called "Saddam's Ties to Al Queda" by Sam Pender.

The connections between OBL and Saddam goes back over 12 years and the leaked intelligence committee memos PROVE that Democrats and Republicans alike KNOW about the relationship between the two men, whether they want to admit it or not.

[null and void]

Before Sept. 11th, and shortly after, I worked with a Muslim who was (and probably still is) one of the nicest people I've ever met.

I'm currently working with one like that. I sure wish he was the rule, not the exception...

[PresbyRev]

More than 100 supporters of Abu Ali crowded the courtroom and laughed when the charge was read aloud alleging that he conspired to assassinate Bush.

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What the hades is that about? Why aren't there 100 new detainees being held and 'questioned' in undisclosed locations?

I fully oppose the measures of the Patriot Act that tend toward eroding civil liberties for Americans, but when 100 folks, probably with funny names and adherents of a Middle Eastern death cult, show up in court and laugh at the charge of conspiracy to assassinate the president, I become more sympathetic toward the notion of extending the courtesy of vigorous interrogation to certain people (namely the 100 laughing supporters of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali).