Bush Assassination Plot by al Qaeda suspect? UPDATE: Indictment Link
By Andrew Cochran
Fox News: American citizen who had been detained in Saudi Arabia as suspected terrorist charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali made initial appearance in U.S. District Court but did not enter a plea. Federal indictment says (quoting Fox story) "that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified co-conspirator 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.'" This is the same Abu Ali who was the subject of a Wash Post story indicating that the feds hoped that Saudi Arabia would hold him for fear of disclosing sensitive information. This will be interesting to watch. UPDATE: Fox News has the indictment.
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