Posted on 02/24/2005 6:34:19 AM PST by Stephen Schwartz
SAUDI 'SOLDIER' BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ IN Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday, a 23-year-old Northern Virginia man of Saudi Arabian background named Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was charged with conspiring to assassinate President Bush. Abu Ali and his accomplices are accused of plotting to kill the president by gunfire or a car bomb. The indictment also spells out such criminal activities as assisting and receiving support from Osama bin Laden's band of murderers. Abu Ali was extradited to Virginia after many months in a Saudi jail. What's most remarkable about this case is the degree to which this would-be assassin is a Saudi creation. In 1999, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was the valedictorian for the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), a K-12 school with campuses in Fairfax and Alexandria, Va., that is directly controlled by the Royal Saudi Embassy in Washington... But Abu Ali is also a familiar figure to U.S. law-enforcement officials and terrorism experts. In mid-2003, federal authorities shut down a Northern Virginia a network of born Muslims and American converts to Islam, headed by convert Randall (Ismail) Royer. Known as the "paintball jihad," the defendants in the case were supporters of Lashkar-i-Taiba, a violent Wahhabi militia fighting against Indian authorities in Kashmir. They practiced for jihad by playing paintball in the woods, went to Kashmir to carry and use weapons, and then tried to explain away their weekend activities near Washington as harmless fun. In April 2004 Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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"Famous FR poster, "retb" actually expressed a very low opinion of the "Who killed..." article, yesterday. You can read the thread."
Developing...
My delivery is a day late!
What happened to MY flowers?
Sigh..... Whining, stomping, and now pouting. It's just not pretty, DS. I suggest you stop digging.
Sorry ma'am...skunk cabbage doesn't flower every day of the week...
Might be a while...still digging.
You may need to change to your after-shave, you seem to be attracting blow-flies.
You're killin me...what is a 'blow-fly?" Pic please, Freddie!
You know I attract all kinds of nuts. (OK, takes one to know one and birds of a feather...Hah).
You know you're having a dull day when you find you are excited to see even idiots (no, not you...the blow-flies).
I have an interesting pic to send you. But I have to go...er, borrow it from someone else.
Should it be rolling around like that? I demand NASA to stop that immediately!
Allah say, "you are getting very sleepy...and angry. Just watch the wobbly moon. Do you feel the need for Jihad?"
Allah should be so lucky as to be a wabbit.
It's against forum rules to carry "incidents" from thread to thread.
Check the main page.
Check the main page.
I am trying to find rule you mention and to further define what is meant by "incident" from thread to thread but might be overlooking it (on Home page). Any help would be appreciated.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Where's that horny goat when you need him?
"Hey there, Madam...that is a no parking zone your right front tyre is touching."
Watch out for blow-flies.
Don't jump threads - If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it's considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.
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