According to an FBI agent, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali (the Virginia Muslim accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush) admitted his guilt on many occasions: Suspect Said to Admit Plan to Kill Bush.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Virginia man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to assassinate President Bush has admitted his guilt on numerous occasions, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, admitted “multiple times” that he joined al-Qaida while studying overseas in Saudi Arabia and discussed plans with the terrorist network to assassinate President Bush, FBI agent Barry Cole said. The agent also said the suspect talked about plans for a Sept. 11-type attack in which “hijackers would board planes in Great Britain and Australia … so they did not have to have U.S. visas.”

“Once into U.S. territories they would fly into designated targets,” he said.

Abu Ali also discussed killing U.S. congressmen, soldiers and blowing up naval ships in American ports, Cole said. He said Abu Ali’s confessions are corroborated by the admissions of an al-Qaida cell leader in Saudi Arabia who surrendered to authorities.

Abu Ali, a U.S. citizen who grew up in Falls Church, is charged with conspiring with al-Qaida to kill the president in a plan that prosecutors said was hatched while he studied in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and 2003.

Cole said that the al-Qaida leaders gave Abu Ali two options: He could either become part of a martyr operation or he could establish a cell in the United States and he would “marry a Christian woman, assimilate into the community and he would be provided operatives.”

Cole also said that Abu Ali was hostile to his Saudi captors and that he would hurl insults at them, such as “Jew scum.”

Lovely.

Does that mean he can’t be compared to Rosa Parks now?