Word: clericalism
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...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...
...crisis" in U.S.-Egyptian relations. Rattled by reports in the U.S. media that depicted Abdel Rahman as "a new Khomeini" and Egypt as a state on the edge of a fundamentalist revolution, Egyptians sniped back that the Americans were bungling the entire affair and turning an otherwise inconsequential cleric into a hero for Egypt's disaffected youth. Mubarak was quoted in the Egyptian press as saying "the sheik has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan. The visa he got was not issued by mistake. It is because of the services...
...Cleric linked to Trade Center bombers pulled in by feds
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...
Still, Reno wouldn't be pushed by political considerations. She weighed the evidence against Rahman, including tapes of his followers accused in the bomb plot, and decided it wasn't enough. Besides, agents might learn more by keeping the militant cleric under surveillance. But then, on Thursday morning, Reno got a phone call...