"This guy was really well-connected and he knows who all the players are," the official told CNN."
Rock Creek Corporation ping.
Sounds like the enemy ranks are breaking. Don't stop now.
Colonel Ghaddafi is a mystery in an enigma, wrapped up in a riddle ...
schizophrenic I do believe ...
What is the penalty in Saudi arabia for trying to assassinate the Prince? Probably more than being forced to wear panties on ones head. I bet some Muslims are sweating on their prayer rugs right now.
Was it Calypso Louie?
Now we know why Ka-daffy was being nice... he had been caught... is the time-line correct?
/adjusting tin foil
The timing is suspicious.
However, here the details are in Alamoudi's plea agreement (see the "Statement of Facts" which begins about halfway through), so I suppose it's to be taken seriously. The story goes that officials from Libya's principal Islamic organization passed money to Alamoudi's Swiss bank account, which he then passed to "Saudi dissidents" in London, who were then supposed to find people in Saudi Arabia itself who could cause trouble for Abdullah, i.e. assassinate him. The peculiar thing (fact 51), as Shermy points out, is that Alamoudi was first apprehended at Heathrow Airport in the UK, carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars, and headed to Syria. How does Syria fit in? Perhaps the Saudi assassins were going to get their money from a Syrian contact.
Alamoudi is not being charged with conspiracy to kill a foreign statesman (is there such a charge under American law?), but with tax and immigration fraud, and failure to report dealings with a sanctioned state. The details of the assassination plot all come out incidentally, as it were, in the statements of fact. And since there's a Sealed Annex containing other things we don't know about yet, someone evidently chose that those details should be public.
Alamoudi also has some role in the American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (al Ikhwan) - I read somewhere that he's the leader, although I can't find the reference now. The Muslim Brotherhood was the original organization set up to restore the caliphate, around 1928. Many al-Qaeda personalities have passed through its ranks (although Zarqawi, for one, disdains the Brotherhood as being all talk and no jihad). Hamas appears to be run by the Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood. Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed supposedly came from the Kuwaiti branch. I think Sayyid Qutb, the major modern ideologist of jihad, was from the Egyptian branch (the biggest and oldest); and Hassan Turabi, bin Laden's host in Sudan, is probably head of the Sudanese branch. Yousef Qaradawi, al-Jazeera's star preacher, is somewhere close to the global summit of the movement, and quite a few other al-Jazeera staffers are also said to be a part of it. Retired CIA officer Bob Baer implies in his second book, Sleeping with the Devil, that the Brotherhood is the ultimate social matrix supporting the Sunni terrorist groups, just as Hezbollah is for the Shiite groups.