I'm angry.

I'm going to let off some steam.

But don't think for a minute that the recommendations I make in this commentary are made in haste or without careful reflection.

I waited a few days to cool off after I read the news stories that prompt this column. I didn't want to say something I would regret later. Now I feel like I will regret it later if I don't say something right now.

Last month, the United States pressed charges against Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen of Arabic extraction, for plotting to assassinate President Bush.

Several things surprised me about this story:

• It got very little attention from my colleagues in the press despite the many questions it raised.

• When this low-life scum was indicted, the press reports said more than 100 of his supporters crowded the courtroom, laughing at the charges and jeering the proceedings.

• Following the indictment, his family members, in announcing they will be suing the U.S. government for its role in allegedly torturing the suspected assassin while he was in the custody of Saudi Arabia, made clear just how much they hate their new homeland of America.

Here's what the mother of this "Islamic scholar" had to say about America, the country in which she lives: She claimed her little Ahmed "was tortured on orders of the USA; they are monsters."

Here's what the father of this valedictorian of the Saudi-financed and Saudi-directed Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia had to say about his little prodigy: "The Saudi government are slaves of the Americans."

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

Some say we Americans are not a tolerant people. I say we are way too tolerant. If I were in charge, this smirking Arab would find himself and his entire family along with the more than 100 of their supporters from that Virginia courtroom in one of the following predicaments:

• Getting ready for deportation to their favorite Islamic hellhole;

• Locked up indefinitely as suspected enemy collaborators;

• Sent off to Guantanamo Bay so they wouldn't have to endure any more of the indignities of life in the USA;

• Or maybe, after their comments about their Saudi sponsors, they'd like a one-way ticket to Mecca;

What ever happened to the idea of deporting "undesirables"? If ever there were a bunch of "undesirables" all in one place at one time, it was in that courtroom in Alexandria. Lock 'em up and throw away the key, I say. Get rid of them. America is at war. We don't need 5th columnists forming here. And, no, I don't care if they are technically U.S. citizens. Get rid of the rotten apples before they spoil the whole barrel.

These people turn my stomach. They are about as undesirable as you can get and still be members of the human race. They don't belong in America. They don't deserve the privileges of citizenship here.

And I'd like to see their little schools of hate closed up tout de suite.

Now this may seem harsh to some of you. But I want you to know this is coming from an Arab-American – or, more precisely, an American of Arabic ancestry. This comes from the grandchild of people who fled to this country to escape the increasing Islamic domination of two countries in the Middle East – Syria and Lebanon. This comes from the grandson of people who came to America because they understood it was the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of "monsters."

Am I wrong? Am I overreacting?

I believe we find ourselves in the kind of war that might, once again, call for loyalty oaths. I'm sure it requires good, common-sense ethnic and racial profiling – and I say this advisedly as someone who might find himself a victim of it. I'm certain it's the kind of war that, if we truly seek to be victorious, will require us to clean our house of this kind of disloyal vermin.