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Some legal experts think U.S. Attorney White may have drawn the conspiracy too broadly. If she cannot prove all that is alleged, they think, she may wind up with fewer convictions than she might have won in a series of narrowly defined cases. As to Abdel Rahman, the feds may have figured they had nothing to lose. They had no narrow case against him, and if he is acquitted of the larger charges, they can resume deportation proceedings and "kick his butt out of the country," as an official puts...
...where could he be sent? Egypt has put in only a quarter-hearted request for extradition; Mubarak would vastly prefer to have Abdel Rahman in a U.S. prison than on trial in Egypt, fluttering terrorists' hearts. The sheik's lawyers have talked about having him go voluntarily to Afghanistan, but no one wants to see him free in that hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. Mohammad Mehdi, head of an Arab-American organization, predicts that "the sheik is going to be our guest in America for many years." Fine by Washington, as long as his guesthouse has bars on the windows...
SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN: Federal prosecutors charged the radical Egyptian cleric with masterminding a "war of urban terrorism...
While serving as an aide to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Salem insisted to American reporters that Islam is a religion of mercy. Then he showed them photographs of people with cigarette burns and other marks of torture. Some journalists got the idea he was boasting of his own handiwork...
...worshipper at Abu-Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, where Salem showed up a few years ago, says most of the members did not trust him. Though he tried to seem devout, the source claimed that Salem could not pray or recite the Koran properly. But members of Sheik Abdel Rahman's alleged terrorist conspiracy seem to have had no doubts. A grand jury indictment last week tells of a number of meetings at which alleged conspirators voiced fear that there might be an informer among them, then pointed a finger at one of their ringleaders. Salem was present...