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http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1416828
“Court orders new sentence for al-Qaida member”
June 6, 2008 - 7:26pm
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, but said that he must be resentenced.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a 30-year prison term and ordered a new sentencing hearing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali. Prosecutors had argued that the judge improperly deviated from federal sentencing guidelines that called for life in prison.
The ruling is a major victory for prosecutors in one of their most high-profile terrorism cases.
Born in Houston, Abu Ali, 27, grew up in the Washington suburb of Falls Church and was valedictorian of a private Islamic high school. He joined al-Qaida after traveling to Saudi Arabia to attend college in 2002. As a member of a Medina-based al-Qaida cell, Abu Ali discussed numerous potential terrorist attacks, including a plan to assassinate Bush and a plan to establish a sleeper cell in the United States.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021295.php
June 6, 2008
Pakistan arrests three would-be suicide bombers, seizes a ton of explosives
Looks like they were planning some serious Interior Spiritual Struggle.
“Pakistani authorities arrest 3, seize explosives,” by Munir Ahmad for Associated Press, June 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday.
Senior police officer Rao Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press that several suspects, including the three alleged bombers, were arrested in the operation late Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
He provided no details on what the bombers allegedly wanted to target and whether the vehicles had been rigged to detonate.
However, two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media, said the arrested men were suspected of wanting to target “sensitive installations.”...
Posted by Robert at June 6, 2008 7:43 AM