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Th Feb 24 -

COURTROOM LAUGHTER -

*Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, was named in a six-count federal indictment...

Court papers said a search of the Abu Ali family's house in Falls Church [Virginia, USA] on June 16, 2003, yielded a document on avoiding government surveillance, another document praising the Sept. 11 terror attacks, audio tapes in Arabic promoting violent jihad, and an anti-democracy book written by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top aide...

Spectators who had arrived with hopes that Abu Ali would be released from custody laughed incredulously when U.S. Magistrate Judge Liam O'Grady told the defendant that the indictment alleged he conspired to kill the president.*

-- From a report by Paul Bradley --
:: TimesDispatch.com ::

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