ABC Treats Torture Allegation as Equal to Assassination Charge

MRC ^ | Wednesday February 23, 2005 | BrentBaker

[EmilyGeiger]

Well I know I don't either, but it's like an earlier poster said, if they get caught their very first response is Torture. And then the media jumps on the bandwagon and accuses American and her soldiers of cruelty, etc. It just becomes very frustrating when there is a plausible explanation. And if he was tortured why do they have to assume someone in America allowed it to happen? And if we did so what? He is a terrorist.

[antiRepublicrat]

I think the moral of the story is if you're a terrorist we'll hunt you down and bring you to justice.

We didn't have to hunt him down. The Saudis got him and had some fun for over a year and a half. I bet he now wishes we'd captured him instead.

[Rummyfan]

Omar Abu Ali, father of assassination plot suspect, outside the federal court building in Alexandra, Virginia: "I am glad that Ahmed is back home. I thank Allah almighty."

Interesting that the father is glad he is back here in the land of the Great Satan, rather than in the Islamic paradise of Saudi Arabia.

Secondly, if he was tortured by the Saudis, how is that our fault? That is a country with routine executions - by beheading - and floggings and amputations. Their justice system is a little different from ours.

[Shazolene]

Abu Ali is not a last name, it is a nom de guerre.
What is this Jihadi's real name???

[Route101]

..."Further raising questions about the case, law enforcement officials told ABC News late today that the plans to assassinate President Bush never moved past the talking stage and may not have been seriously thought out. Which is why, Peter, prosecutors did not charge Abu Ali with the much more serious crime of actually assassinating the President."....God give me strength....I thought it was against the law to even utter something like this to anyone......If joe blow started talking like this, he could expect a visit from the FBI...so what makes this numbnut any different??

[wayoverontheright]

My problem with the way this is being reported is that all of the headlines I have seen have emphasized that he is a "Virginian", or "US citizen". Both are true, but wouldn't it be just as appropriate to call him an "Arab-American" or, more correctly "Jordanian-American"?

The left wants everyone to be a hyphenated American until they do something wrong, then they lose the hyphen. I'll bet a dollar to a donut Mr. Abu Ali doesn't call himself an American.

[fight_truth_decay]

It does not sound dumb. And to answer the second part of your question..yes, they do. However, I believe the majority of Americans will just look away in regard to Abu Ali.