Ahmed Omar Abu Ali of Falls Church was charged today with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and supporting al-Qaida. Abu Ali was valedictorian of his class at the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA).
Abu Ali was detained in Saudi Arabia for 20 months as a suspected terrorist. His case is a cause celebre with the Muslim American Society (the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood), which is closely affiliated with the Dar Al Hijrah Islam Center, where Abu Ali taught Islamic studies to children when he was a student at ISA.
Also, the Washington Post (WaPo) took up his case in its (unsigned) editorial dated Monday, February 21, 2005 Injustice, in secret (registration required).
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"The school's former comptroller, arrested last year after videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, has been labeled by federal agents as a high- ranking member of the terrorist group Hamas...."
The former comptroller would be Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale. His daughter raised the canard of racial profiling concerning his arrest.
The Washington Post tried to make opponents of ISA's plan to establish a second campus in Ashburn out as narrow-minded bigots. Last July, ISA quietly gave up plans to establish the Ashburn campus and decided to sell the property to Loudon County.
The Baron notes that indicted terrorist enabler
Abdelhaleem Ashqar signed the petition to free Abu Ali from Saudi Arabia.
For more about Ashqar, see our Profile of Falls Church mosque - Yahoo! News - Facing New Realities as Islamic Americans. Ashqar was indicated in August 2004 for on racketeering conspiracy charges in connection with efforts to raise money for Hamas.
What is stopping Federal authorities from raiding the Dar Al Hijrah mosque? There's a lot of circumstantial evidence tying that mosque to terrorism and its enablement.
WaPo and other media outlets made a big deal about Abu Ali's rights as a U.S. citizen. The motion by U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty to detain Abu Ali before trial notes that he lived in Jordan between 1993 and 1997, holds joint U.S. and Jordanian citizenship, and even spoke with the U.S. Consulate in Riyadh about renouncing his U.S. citizenship. This goes to show that Abu Ali, his lawyers, his parents, his handlers at the Muslim American Society are exploiting the U.S. Constitution and civil law when they have nothing but contempt for this country.
WaPo had to step back from its February 21 editorial and issued yet another unsigned editorial dated Thursday, February 24 Unveiling a Terrorism Case. It argues that "the courts need to ensure that no evidence obtained by torture -- with or without the connivance of the U.S. government -- is used to convict people in U.S. courts." However, U.S. Attorney McNulty's motion contains measured wording that Abu Ali's claims of torture are "an utter fabrication."
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