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To: TheDon

FROM FOX NEWS;
Man Accused of Plotting to Assassinate Bush
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148338,00.html
•Indictment in Alleged Bush Plot
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Virginia high school valedictorian who had been detained in Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the Al Qaeda (search) terrorist network.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali (search), 23, a U.S. citizen, made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court but did not enter a plea. He contended 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 federal indictment said that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified co-conspirator 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."

Click here to read the indictment. The White House had no immediate comment.

Abu Ali was born in Houston and moved to Falls Church, Va., where he was valedictorian of his high school class. Federal prosecutors say Abu Ali joined an Al Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia in 2001. The alleged Bush plot occurred while he was studying in that country

2001?????????? BEFORE 9-11 OR AFTER??????????


180 posted on 02/22/2005 9:25:24 AM PST by highflight (from a distance - buzzards might appear as eagles.)
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To: highflight
It appears he was detained in Saudi before 9-11. Something like June 2001 if I am not mistaken.
191 posted on 02/22/2005 9:31:34 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
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