NOYB wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Look, I don't know the particulars of the fellow in question
Then here are some more particulars:
Suspect Said to Admit Plan to Kill Bush
1 hour, 28 minutes ago
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Virginia man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to
assassinate President Bush 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."
Did he confess freely, or under torture?
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