Posted on 02/22/2005 7:38:01 AM PST by 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."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1090984588717
Abu Ali was born in Texas and holds dual US-Jordanian citizenship. He was valedictorian of his high school class in Falls Church, Virginia, and was studying at a Saudi university when he was arrested in June 2003, the lawsuit said. His parents and siblings live in Falls Church, a suburb of Washington.
Mirror sunglasses...
Racial slurs are acceptable here? This is why the Demoncats win 3/4 of the minority vote.
"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."
'24' did not go nearly far enough - as this episode shows, the problem is not merely the occasional "terrorist family" but a vast community of Satan-worshipping fanatics who approve of and support the more active terrorists.....
You shouldn't have done it Corin.
Take your race-baiting somewhere else, punk.
This is "one" that they caught.......
Methinks the "valedictorian" angle is being pushed a bit too hard.
He's a Quaker pacifist and this is all an evil plot by the Bush administration to persecute the left.... or didn't you know that? /sarcasm
Why, is he a Southern Baptist? /sarcasm>
Tell that to a minority. Face it, we conservatives face a major demographic problem in the future because of the type of thinking espoused by many posters in this thread.
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.
Wahhabist hair and beard-doo - one red flag.
Well said!
Racial profiling would have caught that Asian-looking guy.
He IS from Virginia.
More escapades from the "Religion of Love and Peace".
Oh yeah, we're angry, lowbrowed, gun-toting, knuckledragging, Bible-thumping white supremecists here. We KNOW you got the memo.
Are Muslims the only people to ever attempt to assassinate a leader? Who shout JFK and MLK? How many people at DU do you think would love to see Bush dead?
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