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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...
...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...
What may have changed his dreams were the years Abu Ali spent at I.S.A., a school set up by the Saudi government in 1984 for children of its diplomats and eventually open to Muslims of all nationalities. The school insists it does not teach intolerance, but many of the religious textbooks once used there had the markings of the Saudi brand of fundamentalist Islam. It was enough to launch Abu Ali on a career in Islamic studies that eventually led him to Saudi Arabia, where he enrolled at a school known for having turned out several militants. Still, his former...
...Green trimmed the Harvard advantage back to a single score at 4:37 of the final period, when Dartmouth’s Cherie Piper skated through the defense and beat netminder Ali Boe high and tight. The next 15 minutes, as the Crimson fought to maintain the one-goal margin, were filled with an anxiety befitting the rivalry and its history of intense, narrowly decided games...