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...Saudis ultimately found that they could not build a case against him, but they did not want Abu Ali running around their country. U.S. officials, who say Abu Ali "was not on the radar screen" before the Saudis arrested him, developed a deep interest in him once they did but also had trouble lining up sufficient evidence. Finally, Abu Ali's family filed a civil suit last summer to get him returned to the U.S., forcing the Justice Department's hand. The Saudis, eager to avoid the p.r. nightmare of putting an American citizen on trial for terrorism, were relieved...
...least Abu Ali can now have his day in court--an American court. The charges the U.S. filed against him, detailed in a six-count federal indictment unsealed last week, certainly sounded explosive, centering on the young man's alleged talk that he was ready to kill the President, by either shooting him in the street or setting off a car bomb. But like a number of other high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that have grabbed big headlines only to quietly fizzle or stall in trial--from alleged terrorist flight student Zacarias Moussaoui and accused dirty bomber Jose...
Perhaps their toughest yet. Though U.S. and Saudi investigators say they have strong suspicions that Abu Ali was a committed al-Qaeda believer keen to plan terrorist attacks, neither country could tie him to a specific operation in the works. The circumstances of his Saudi detention will also be an issue. Once the Saudis decided they didn't have much of a case, they believed they were doing the U.S. a favor by letting the FBI park Abu Ali there, says a source close to the case. The Americans insist the Saudis were not merely keeping Abu Ali...
...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...
...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, agents...