U.S. Citizen Accused of Discussing to Kill Bush
Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:16 PM ET
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a U.S. citizen arrested in 2003 in Saudi Arabia and returned to this country late on Monday, has been charged with supporting al Qaeda and accused of discussing ways to kill President Bush, according to court documents made public on Tuesday.
The indictment said between September 2002 and June 9, 2003, while he was in Saudi Arabia, Abu Ali discussed with an unidentified co-conspirator two options for assassinating Bush.
They talked about "an operation in which Abu Ali would get close enough to the president to shoot him on the street and ... an operation in which Abu Ali would detonate a car bomb," according to the 16-page indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.
The indictment of Abu Ali was filed on Feb. 3 and was made public on Tuesday. Abu Ali, who last resided in the United States in Falls Church, Virginia, was arrested by Saudi authorities on June 9, 2003, and had been held in that country.
A court spokesman in Virginia said Abu Ali made an initial appearance before a magistrate judge on Tuesday morning, and that he was ordered detained until another hearing on Thursday.
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