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| Abu Ali worked for al-Rimi |
| 2005-03-01 |
| A Falls Church man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush met several times with an al Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia who once was the target of a global manhunt and a key suspect in an attack that killed nine Americans in Riyadh, law-enforcement authorities said. Ahmed Omar Abul Ali, scheduled for a detention hearing tomorrow in federal court on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, met with Zubayr al-Rimi in Saudi Arabia between September 2002 and June 2003. The meeting with al-Rimi, described as the second-ranking al Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, took place at the time the Bush assassination scheme was being discussed, authorities said. Al-Rimi, also known as Sultan Jubran Sultan al-Qahtani, was identified in a Sept. 5, 2003, FBI bulletin to law-enforcement officials as one of four suspected al Qaeda terrorists thought to be planning unspecified attacks against U.S. interests. Less than three weeks after the bulletin was released, al-Rimi was killed in a Sept. 23, 2003, shootout with Saudi security forces during a raid on a hospital housing complex in Jizan, about 600 miles south of the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Two other Islamist militants and a Saudi police officer also were killed in the raid. Al-Rimi, 29, was named as a key suspect in a suicide bombing in Riyadh in May 2003 that killed 34 persons, including nine Americans. The FBI said he was the top deputy of Ali Abd al-Ghamdi, the mastermind of the Riyadh bombings and the former top al Qaeda member in Saudi Arabia who surrendered to Saudi authorities in June 2003. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 and our press treats this guy like he was intending to put a cherry bomb in a mailbox. I read the courtroom had his friends and family clapping etc. in the courtroom. Enjoy it now, punk. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-03-01 7:37:25 AM |