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...worshipper at Abu-Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, where Salem showed up a few years ago, says most of the members did not trust him. Though he tried to seem devout, the source claimed that Salem could not pray or recite the Koran properly. But members of Sheik Abdel Rahman's alleged terrorist conspiracy seem to have had no doubts. A grand jury indictment last week tells of a number of meetings at which alleged conspirators voiced fear that there might be an informer among them, then pointed a finger at one of their ringleaders. Salem was present...
...Middle East scene a decade ago in a hail of gunfire: young fighters, armed with grenades and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" captured an invading Israeli armored personnel carrier near Beirut in June 1982 and paraded it through the city. They took their name from a verse in the Koran, "Lo, the Party of God, they are victorious," and their money, weapons and inspiration from fundamentalist sponsors in Tehran...
...authorities paraded five of their six prime suspects -- Abohalima, Bilal Alkaisi, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad and Ibrahim Elgabrowny -- into the U.S. District Court building in Manhattan's Foley Square. All five pleaded not guilty to charges related to the bombing. Ayyad, a chemical engineer, said, "I swear on the Koran, my wife, my children and my family and all I hold dear to me that I am not guilty and had nothing to do with this." The denials of the defendants notwithstanding, FBI and police investigators felt they had apprehended the core members of the terrorist conspiracy. Wider conspiracy theories...
...Ryder. But declaring Salameh a "serious risk," Judge Owen ordered the suspect held without bail for a preliminary hearing March 18. Salameh later told his attorney he was innocent and believed he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs. Precht says his client has requested a copy of the Koran, a watch so he can pray at the proper times and a change in his feeding schedule so that he can observe ritual daytime fasting for Ramadan. Salameh also asked the lawyer to contact his father, who is still in Jordan...
...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...