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...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
Frustrated for months by Sheik Abdel Rahman's growing visibility, enhanced by his ties to some suspects in the World Trade Center bombing and the foiled conspiracy to bomb a handful of other New York City sites, Mubarak was also impatient with the presumption of innocence accorded the sheik by U.S. law. Once the Justice Department decided to detain the blind diabetic cleric, however, Mubarak approved the executions, apparently calculating that a Sheik Abdel Rahman in jail was far less likely to make trouble for him than one on the loose...
SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN...
After a 20-hour standoff, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Muslim cleric who federal authorities believe is connected to terrorists, left a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and surrendered peaceably to immigration authorities. The Justice Department decided to detain Abdel Rahman after he tried to elude surveillance by federal agents...
...after day, the question flew at her: Why haven't you arrested the sheik? As federal agents continued to round up suspects in the plot to blow up New York City, spiritual leader Omar Abdel Rahman was left untouched. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, an assassination target, was holding angry press conferences. President Clinton was getting frustrated...