Family Support Suspect in Alleged Bush Plot

[Lori Price CLG]

Family Support Suspect in Alleged Bush Plot

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Family and friends who packed a Virginia courtroom to support Ahmed Omar Abu Ali laughed out loud when prosecutors alleged that the former high school valedictorian had plotted to assassinate President (sic) Bush.

Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen who grew up in Falls Church, was charged Tuesday with conspiring with al-Qaida to kill the president in a plan that prosecutors said was hatched while the man studied in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and 2003.

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Abu Ali's lawyers expressed concern that the government's case may be based on evidence obtained through torture. At Tuesday's hearing, Abu Ali offered to show the judge the scars on his back as proof that he was tortured by Saudi authorities.

"He has the evidence on his back," lawyer Ashraf Nubani told the court. "He was whipped. He was handcuffed for days at a time."

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Lori R. Price
Gen. Mgr., Citizens for Legitimate Government
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[Selteri]

1. Reminds my of a loose quote from Joan D'Arc ---

You can torture me to elicit a confession but those words are from the duress, not the truth.

[AlCzervik]

2. I'll take his families word over the Saudi's anyday.

[justiceischeap]

3. It makes me wonder who this guy is and what he knows (eom)

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Most people would admit to anything under torture

In 6 months, after he is released due to lack of evidence there will be a big wrongful detention case against those bastards because they got the wrong guy

[rzemanfl]

5. Aw shucks, I was hoping the "family support" was from the Bush

family...