Ahmed Omar Abu Ali
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 23 year old U.S. citizen, has been charged with conspiring to assassinate the President and being an al-Qaeda supporter. From the AP:
"The federal indictment said 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."Counsel for Abu Ali, Ashraf Nubani, told the court that his client had been tortured while held in Saudi Arabia, and offered to show the magistrate the defendants scars. FNC has the indictment [pdf - 456k]. [HT: LGF][snip]
According to the indictment, Abu Ali obtained a religious blessing from another unidentified co-conspirator to assassinate the president. One of the unidentified co-conspirators in the plot is among 19 people the Saudi government said in 2003 was seeking to launch terror attacks in that country, according to the indictment."
