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...Abu Ali case appears to be based largely on evidence gathered by the foreign-intelligence service of a Saudi regime that has scant regard for human rights. The best witnesses against Abu Ali, who vehemently denies all the charges, are other prisoners in Saudi jails or members of the Saudi domestic-security service who conducted the interrogations. But, acknowledges a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, "it's unlikely we'll ever get them here to testify." One key witness is dead: the al-Qaeda operative with whom Abu Ali allegedly discussed assassinating Bush was killed in a shootout with the Saudis...
...Abu Ali and his family have gone public with accusations that he was tortured while in Saudi custody. During his first appearance in a Virginia court, he offered to strip down and show his scars. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia reject the accusations. In a brief filed by the U.S., prosecutors say neither consular officials and FBI agents who visited Abu Ali in detention nor an American doctor who examined him after the Saudis handed him over saw any signs of mistreatment. On the 20-hr. journey to Washington on the FBI's G-5 jet, a U.S. official says...
Even the indictment against Abu Ali is not as devastating as the government has implied. Instead of charging him with terrorism conspiracy, the U.S. had only enough to go with the lesser charge of material support to terrorism. The evidence: Abu Ali allegedly associated with figures suspected of ties to al-Qaeda, who gave him money to buy a laptop and cell phone, and he allegedly professed a desire to become a "planner of terrorist operations like Mohammed Atta." Though Abu Ali does not appear to be particularly resourceful or hardened, a Justice Department official notes, "the problem is, What...
...safe bet that the Abu Ali case never will. The U.S. first got wind of him in the spring of 2003, when close to 70 FBI agents from the Washington field office went to Saudi Arabia to help investigate bombings in Riyadh that killed 34 people, including nine Americans. This time the Saudis were more willing than in previous joint operations to share with their American counterparts evidence from the interrogations of hundreds of suspects rounded up after the attacks. As it turned out, the indictment alleges, two of the most sought-after suspects in that case met with Abu...
...could any student, like Abu Ali, who attended the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a short commute from his father's job as a computer systems analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. In many ways, young Abu Ali had a fairly typical American upbringing, playing soccer, tutoring other kids, passionately cheering on the Washington Redskins and even dreaming of one day becoming President...