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...federal officer: "Guilty." Again and again and again: "Guilty." But when that calm recitation ended, a different kind of oratory erupted. "Injustice! We are the victims!" shouted Mohammad Salameh, one of the four men on trial, pointing at the jury and pounding his fist on the table. "Allah-Akbar ((God is great))!" shouted the other defendants. "Al-Nasr lil-Islam ((Victory to Islam))!" And from the gallery came a retort New Yorkers in the court could understand. Cried the brother of defendant Nidal Ayyad: "You are all f---ing liars! My brother is innocent...
...connections are tantalizing. Libya shuts down some of its terrorist camps, and elements of the radical Palestinian Abu Nidal organization surface in Sudan. Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas set up offices in Khartoum. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visits Khartoum, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel soon arrive to train the fundamentalist people's militias set up by Sudan's Islamic regime. Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group...
Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God, arrived publicly on the Middle East scene a decade ago in a hail of gunfire: young fighters, armed with grenades and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" captured an invading Israeli armored personnel carrier near Beirut in June 1982 and paraded it through the city. They took their name from a verse in the Koran, "Lo, the Party of God, they are victorious," and their money, weapons and inspiration from fundamentalist sponsors in Tehran...
...talk of the whole country is the economy; the survival of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani could depend on how well he handles economic problems and the discontent they breed. No one is suggesting he could lose his re- election bid in voting scheduled for June 11, but his personal survival may be at risk. There were reports of an assassination attempt on the President last February, and full-blown riots swept three major cities last year during protests against unemployment and poor housing...
...testimony last week before a subcommittee chaired by Senator John Kerry, a convicted former B.C.C.I. employee fingered Zayed as one of the phony stockholders in B.C.C.I.'s purchase of First American. The witness, Akbar Bilgrami, testified that he had personally read the loan agreements by which B.C.C.I. lent the money to Zayed to buy First American shares. If true, this means that Zayed violated the same banking laws that Adham and Mahfouz are charged with breaking...