Word: abohalima
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...EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT KNEW IT WAS GOING TO face charges that it is in Uncle Sam's pocket. So it tried to pretend that Mahmud Abohalima asked voluntarily to go back to the U.S. In fact he was arrested by Egyptian security forces in a town near Alexandria and flown back last Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area...
...Alkaisi, surrendered voluntarily in Newark, New Jersey, and was held for a bail hearing this week. That brings to five the number in custody and may be close to completing a roundup; authorities are believed to be looking for only one other suspect. But it scarcely completes the investigation. Abohalima and two of the other suspects have been arraigned only on general aiding and abetting charges (like another suspect accused of obstructing justice, they have all asserted innocence). Authorities have yet to spell out any theory of who did what: Who actually made the bomb; who drove the van containing...