Tonight on Countdown: Virginia HS valedictorian-Assassin/Terrorist?

[paineinthearse]

Tonight on Countdown
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A former Virginia high school valedictorian who had been detained in
Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The federal indictment said that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified co-conspirator discussed plans for Abu Ali to assassinate Bush. They discussed two scenarios, the indictment said, one in which Abu Ali "would get close enough to the president to shoot him on the street" and, alternatively, "an operation in which Abu Ali would detonate a car bomb."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7012172/

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President Bush, working to cement an era of stronger U.S.-European
relations after the divisiveness of Iraq, hailed NATO's modest pledge to help train security forces there Tuesday, saying "every contribution helps." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6992078/

Interim Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari was chosen as his Shiite
ticket's candidate for Iraq's next prime minister Tuesday, after Ahmad Chalabi dropped his bid, senior alliance officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6913272/

*JFK Presidential Library in Boston releases some rarely seen home
movies of the Kennedy family.

* A deadly series of storms across California spawned tornadoes,
landslides and avalanches as persistent rain flooded freeways and sent mud roaring into homes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6998659/

* Will the F.B.I. investigate who hacked into Paris Hilton's cell phone data... Why bother?

That's some of what we're working on for tonight's show.

Finally,
Police chased a naked man through the city's slushy streets early
Monday after he allegedly stripped off his bathrobe, bit an officer, then stole a police cruiser in an attempt to escape. The man was captured after he smashed the cruiser into several parked cars, abandoned the vehicle and tried to get away in his bare feet.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NUDE_SUSPECT?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
Sounds like he was having a really bad day.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

More:
A pregnant woman and her 7-year-old son who vanished Saturday are
thought to have been killed, police said Tuesday, and a man has been
arrested and booked on a capital murder charge.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7008011/

Israeli police plan to confiscate the arms of some militant Jewish
settlers ahead of a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio on Tuesday quoted the public security minister as saying.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7011091/

Michael Jackson returned to court Tuesday after a week's delay and the judge assured prospective jurors that the singer really had been ill and there was no plot to put off his child molestation trial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7010637/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. They plotted to kill the Preznit the horror!

there are many of those plots and near plots all the time, and the Secret Service has had more with Bush.

Why are they singling this one out?

It was an Aryab, that is why.

Pravda at your service...

[paineinthearse]

2. I missed the beginning.....

...is Countdown repeated?