Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a US citizen arrested in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush, is scheduled for a detention hearing today in a Virginia federal court — weather permitting as snow storms have hit much of the region — on charges of providing material support to Al-Qaeda. Abu Ali was charged Feb. 22 with conspiracy and providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization — Al-Qaeda.According to the six-count indictment, Abu Ali "did knowingly and unlawfully conspire to knowingly provide material support and resources...knowing and intending that they were to be used in preparation for, and for carrying out, the assassination of the president of the United States." The 23-year-old Abu Ali is not charged with a conspiracy to assassinate Bush, but for supporting terrorists and, as part of that, discussing Bush's possible assassination. The indictment offered no evidence that the discussions ever advanced into a plan. He was denied bail last Tuesday. Abu Ali is charged with meeting with a man called the second-ranking Al-Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, Sultan Jubran Sultan Al-Qatani, also known as Zubayr Al-Rimi. Al-Rimi was killed in a Sept. 23, 2003 shootout with Saudi security forces during a raid on a hospital housing complex in Jizan.