Word: clerics
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...says a cleric led a plot to bomb and kill...
...Abdel Rahman has finally been indicted for conspiring with 14 of his followers to wage what prosecutors last week called a "war of urban terrorism." The group allegedly orchestrated February's World Trade Center bombing and plotted to attack other New York City landmarks. Though at first the radical cleric could not be directly linked to the acts, a federal grand jury indicted him under a seldom-used sedition...
SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN: Federal prosecutors charged the radical Egyptian cleric with masterminding a "war of urban terrorism...
...Mubarak, the dead terrorist's Afghanistan connection is an important one. The President has insisted that the campaign of extremist violence in Egypt was sparked by the return of Afghan war volunteers, many of them inspired by the fiery preaching of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now in jail in the U.S. who is linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says...
Time was running out last week for radical Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. A federal judge refused to stay a deportation order for the blind cleric, giving him and his lawyers until the end of this week to file an appeal. The sheik's followers are charged with terrorist plots in New York City, including last February's bombing of the World Trade Center...