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...southwest of the capital. But Abdel Rahman is almost certain to fight extradition on grounds that he is charged with a political crime. If in the < end he is deported rather than extradited, the sheik can argue it should be to Sudan, since his last visa was issued in Khartoum, now a hot spot of Islamic fundamentalism...
...farce began in 1990, when the American Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan issued the blind cleric a visa, somehow overlooking the fact that Rahman was on the United States "watch list"--American intelligence had already marked him as a suspected terrorist...
...sources who have examined the document, was exactly the same as on AVLOS microfiche. "We had the right name, the right nationality and the right date of birth," says a senior official. The State Department is now trying to find out whether the embassy employee, who still works in Khartoum, made a mistake, did not check -- or was told by Sudan's radical Islamic government to help the sheik...
...Khartoum embassy realized its mistake three days later, when it received a cable from a U.S. official in Cairo saying Sheik Abdel Rahman was heading for Sudan. The embassy sent an urgent message informing the State Department that the sheik had been given a visa by mistake. Khartoum officials, who hoped to snag the sheik and revoke the visa, thought he would leave for the U.S. on a specific flight. But the sheik flew to Pakistan instead...
State Department officials believe a copy of Khartoum's cable was sent to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, but the INS says it has not found it. All sides agree, however, that when the Khartoum embassy failed to cancel the visa, Washington should have been alerted so that it could tell INS to put Sheik Abdel Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally...