Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 02/22/2005 | 20:09

El Departamento de Justicia detuvo a un hombre orginiario de Houston que planeaba asesinar al presedinte de los EUA, George W. Bush, con la ayuda de terroristas de Medio Oriente. Según informa The New York Times, Ahmed Omar Abu Al planeaba atentar en contra de Bush disparándole en la calle o detonando un coche bomba.

Abu Al, de 23 años de edad, supuestamente conspiró atentar contra la vida del presidente estadounidense en su visita a Arabia Saudita entre septiembre de 2002 y junio de 2003. El equipo de abogados que encabeza su defensa rieron en el juzgado mientras les leían los cargos en su contra. Los abogados acusan de tortura a las autoridades en Arabia Saudita al momento de su detención.

The accusation that Mr. Ali plotted to kill President Bush was included in a count charging him with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to foreign terrorists. Between September 2002 and June 2003, the indictment says, Mr. Ali and another conspirator discussed two possibilities: that Mr. Ali would get close enough to the president "to shoot him on the street," or that he would detonate a car bomb to kill the president...

While Mr. Ali was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, his case became a cause célèbre among Washington-area Muslims, who complained that he should not be held so long without being charged with a crime.

The Washington Post reported in 2003 that Mr. Ali was valedictorian of his 1999 high school class at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, where school officials described him as "an exceptional student," with special talent in mathematics and science.

Bending to the wishes of his parents, Omar and Faten Abu Ali, Mr. Ali entered the University of Maryland in the fall of 1999 to study engineering on a scholarship, The Post reported. But he was unhappy and left the next year to further his Islamic studies, first in Fairfax County, Va., and later in Medina.

The New York Times, 22 de febrero de 2005