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...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 to hustle Abu Ali aboard an FBI flight to Washington. Now it was the U.S. that faced a deadline to indict...
...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 on ice but, in the words of a State Department official, "wanted this guy. They thought they could charge him." Either way, the situation came to a head...
...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 reported he looked "as healthy...
...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...
Pantano is now back at 2-2's home base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. In mid-February, a website based in Pakistan put up a photo montage depicting Pantano's severed head. The FBI and local police were called in, and Pantano turned his pleasant modern house into a small armed camp. Guns appeared from various bags and trunks. A bag of flak jackets lay by the couch, and Pantano took to wearing a sidearm under his Thomas Pink shirt. It was as close to the front lines as Lieut. Pantano is likely to get in the foreseeable future. This...