Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials in Washington and Cairo are concerned, jail -- anywhere -- is a far safer place for the sheik to be. Since he first rose to global prominence last February, the state-influenced Egyptian press has been warning darkly of a "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...
...State Department has admitted that it should not have granted Sheik Abdel Rahman a multiple-entry visa in 1990 since he had been on the watch list for suspected terrorists since 1987. A classified report by the department's inspector general concludes that it was issued by mistake. But Egyptian fears will be fed by one discovery: sources have told Time that the U.S. diplomat who approved the sheik's visa application in Khartoum was a CIA officer working under cover in the consular office when the sheik's case came up. A CIA spokesman says the agency has found...
...feds wanted him to surrender at INS headquarters in Manhattan. They compromised on a firehouse across the street from the mosque, where the sheik entered an INS van and was driven to a federal facility in Otisville, New York, about 75 miles northwest of New York City. The blind Egyptian cleric could be held until the resolution of his appeal of a deportation order issued by an immigration judge in March...
...Egypt, already wracked by fundamentalist terror, the threat is even more menacing. That's why the Egyptian government repeatedly maintained that it wants nothing to do with the sheik...
...Secretary of State Warren M Christopher made it abundantly clear that the U.S. was not about to do Egypt's dirty work for it. In an elegantly staged buck passing he had Ambassador Robert Pelletreau inform the Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa that since Rahman was not charged with a crime in the United States he could voluntarily leave the U.S. at any time in favor of a sympathetic third country such as the Sudan. Only a formal extradition request could keep him behind bars for the moment...