23 February 2005
EX-VALEDICTORIAN AT 'TERROR HIGH' NAMED IN PLOT TO KILL BUSH
Perhaps you also noticed that most news coverage of the acquisition of custody and charging of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali with terrorism offenses, including plotting presidential assassination pointed out that the perp was described as "valedictorian of his high school class" evoking images of football games on crisp autumn nights, and all the rest of most Americans' high school experiences.
The reports of his status was true enough, but like a Paul Harvey report, the real interest comes from "the rest of the story". THIS news report from Philly has the rest of the story - in short, that his "high school" is a Saudi financed madrassah school in the D.C. area. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Maybe his hooking up with al Qaida isn't so outlandish after all.
Along with this, Fox News has a report that the DoJ has categorically refuted Abu Ali's lawyers claims that the poor child had been tortured by his peace-loving Islamic brethren while he was in custody in Saudi Arabia. Personally, one would not think that the US would bother to bring him back to run the legal gauntlet of the whiny leftist lawyers that will crawl out of the woodwork, unless they had the case nailed down solid. Otherwise, just leave him to rot in a desert dungeon over there forever, and good riddance for sure.
The reports of his status was true enough, but like a Paul Harvey report, the real interest comes from "the rest of the story". THIS news report from Philly has the rest of the story - in short, that his "high school" is a Saudi financed madrassah school in the D.C. area. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Maybe his hooking up with al Qaida isn't so outlandish after all.
Along with this, Fox News has a report that the DoJ has categorically refuted Abu Ali's lawyers claims that the poor child had been tortured by his peace-loving Islamic brethren while he was in custody in Saudi Arabia. Personally, one would not think that the US would bother to bring him back to run the legal gauntlet of the whiny leftist lawyers that will crawl out of the woodwork, unless they had the case nailed down solid. Otherwise, just leave him to rot in a desert dungeon over there forever, and good riddance for sure.
