Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that Salameh was "not unknown" to his department, and an FBI official in Washington confirmed that Salameh's name had turned up in a search of the bureau's files on suspected terrorists, though obviously before last week the FBI had not had information enough to make an arrest...
...event, Salameh's arrest promptly led to a widening investigation. The complaint read at his court appearance detailed the results of one follow-up. It seems that Salameh had given Ryder a phone number that turned out to be registered to one Josie Hadas at an apartment in Jersey City. Salameh may have been living there, but FBI agents apparently found no proof when they searched the apartment. What they did find, according to the court papers, was a letter addressed to Salameh (contents undisclosed), "tools and wiring, and manuals concerning antennae, circuitry and electromagnetic devices." One expert interpreted these...
According to Salameh's court-appointed attorney, Robert Precht, his client has not mentioned the cleric in their two conversations since his arrest. Ibrahim Elgabrowny, the second man who was picked up last week after he tried to block an FBI search of his home, is a cousin of El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian American who is currently serving up to 22 years in Attica state prison on a weapons charge related to the 1990 Kahane slaying. Like Salameh, Nosair worshipped at Al-Salam Mosque. The address where Elgabrowny was arrested is also listed on Salameh's 1992 driver...
...after Salameh's arrest, Sheik Omar, who has been living on and off in New Jersey since 1990, placed a phone call from Detroit to the New York- based National Council on Islamic Affairs to denounce the bombing. "The holy Koran commands the faithful not to commit aggression," he said. "The bombing of the World Trade Center could not have been done by a true Muslim...
...Salam Mosque, if unknown to the world at large before last week, has something of a mixed reputation in Jersey City. After Salameh's arrest, local merchants quietly voiced their relief. One shopkeeper described the worshippers as "bloody men who want to see everyone who isn't a Muslim killed." He also claimed that a shop owner had been harassed after he criticized the mosque in a television interview following the Kahane murder. "They made his life difficult and even fire bombed the store," he said. But a young Coptic Christian, who runs a bakery near the mosque, dismisses such...