Posted on 03/01/2005 1:54:06 PM PST by MisterRepublican
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Virginia man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to assassinate President Bush (news - web sites) has admitted his guilt on numerous occasions, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, admitted "multiple times" that he joined al-Qaida while studying overseas in Saudi Arabia and discussed plans with the terrorist network to assassinate President Bush, FBI agent Barry Cole said. The agent also said the suspect talked about plans for a Sept. 11-type attack in which "hijackers would board planes in Great Britain and Australia ... so they did not have to have U.S. visas."
"Once into U.S. territories they would fly into designated targets," he said.
Abu Ali also discussed killing U.S. congressmen, soldiers and blowing up naval ships in American ports, Cole said. He said Abu Ali's confessions are corroborated by the admissions of an al-Qaida cell leader in Saudi Arabia who surrendered to authorities.
Abu Ali, a U.S. citizen who grew up in Falls Church, is charged with conspiring with al-Qaida to kill the president in a plan that prosecutors said was hatched while he studied in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and 2003.
Cole said that the al-Qaida leaders gave Abu Ali two options: He could either become part of a martyr operation or he could establish a cell in the United States and he would "marry a Christian woman, assimilate into the community and he would be provided operatives."
Cole also said that Abu Ali was hostile to his Saudi captors and that he would hurl insults at them, such as "Jew scum."
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The gallows beckon....
Gee, after they provided him with that great high school education... what an ingrate.
Good... lock him up in the same cell with BTK and Michael Jackson.
This'll come as quite a shock to the columnist Robert Hebert. A column of his appeared in yesterday's Palo Alto daily that this man was wrongly accused, sent to another country and tortured into saying these things, accompanied by lot of hand-wringing that this could happen to any one of us some day, you know, the usual drivel.
Making his bones among the Bush Haters.
The most frightening, appaling, threatening thing about this guy is that he is not unique. There are probably hundreds of his type and belief out there in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, etc. People who, at this very minute are engaged in such plans. There is no government who can provide constant security from today's terrorist beast!
Maybe he had his fingers crossed. . . .
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23,
Yep, just another redneck hillbilly from Virginia.
Which is why the TSA wands everyone, even little old ladies. People who don't fit the profile might still be unknowingly used as mules or for some other purpose. But a lot of blowhards like to scream about this and pretend it isn't a possibility.
And the left will say that just talking about assasination plans is nothing more than free speech.
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