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Of course, claiming torture is a tactic right out of the Al-Qaeda playbook. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali update from AP, with thanks to DC Watson:
ALEXANDRIA -- An FBI doctor testified Monday that he found no significant scars on the back of a U.S. citizen who claims that Saudi police whipped and tortured him into falsely confessing he joined al-Qaida and plotted to assassinate President Bush....Prosecutors allege Ahmed Omar Abu Ali joined al-Qaida in 2002 while enrolled in a college in Saudi Arabia. They say he confessed to plotting Bush's assassination along with other terrorist acts, including plans to establish an al-Qaida cell in the United States and to rescue of Muslim prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay....
His attorneys want the confession thrown out. They argue that the 24-year-old falsely confessed after being tortured and whipped by the Saudis, and they say U.S. authorities were complicit in the torture.
Prosecutors deny Abu Ali, of Falls Church, was mistreated.
Posted by Robert at October 18, 2005 9:55 AM
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I hope they didn't resort to showing him pictures of naked women. How humiliating!
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at October 19, 2005 10:00 AM
Maybe he had to wear a panty-hat.
Posted by: CGW at October 20, 2005 6:27 AM
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