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Saudi National Sentenced for Bombing Plot

HeadlineNov 15, 2012

And a Saudi national in the United States on a student visa has been sentenced to life in prison for an attempted bomb plot. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari was convicted in June of purchasing chemicals and equipment with the intent to make a bomb. His alleged targets included former President George W. Bush and three former U.S. military officials stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where scores of Iraqis were tortured.

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