RICHARD CARLSON: Dispatches from the Danger Zone

A Federal Judge in Northern Virginia has refused to throw out a confession by a terrorism suspect who claims he was tortured in a Saudi prison, that the statements were false.   

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali will go on trial on charges of plotting to kill President Bush.   

Abu Ali's statements to his Saudi jailers, in which he admitted being part of an al-Qaeda plot, are central to the government's case.