U.S. Citizen Accused of Discussing to Kill Bush - Reuters

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By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Virginia man, arrested and held in Saudi Arabia, has been returned to the United States to face charges of supporting al Qaeda, and was accused of plotting in 2002 and 2003 to kill President Bush (news - web sites), court documents made public on Tuesday said.


Between September 2002 and June 9, 2003, while he was in Saudi Arabia, Abu Ali discussed with an unidentified co-conspirator two options for assassinating Bush, according to the 16-page indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.


They talked about "an operation in which Abu Ali would get close enough to the president to shoot him on the street and ... an operation in which Abu Ali would detonate a car bomb," the indictment said.


The six-count indictment said Abu Ali received a religious blessing from another co-conspirator to carry out the plan to assassinate Bush.

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