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...extradition; Mubarak would vastly prefer to have Abdel Rahman in a U.S. prison than on trial in Egypt, fluttering terrorists' hearts. The sheik's lawyers have talked about having him go voluntarily to Afghanistan, but no one wants to see him free in that hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. Mohammad Mehdi, head of an Arab-American organization, predicts that "the sheik is going to be our guest in America for many years." Fine by Washington, as long as his guesthouse has bars on the windows...
People who live in the neighborhood said they have not seen Sheik Omar since Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, which began on Feb. 22. Mohammed Mehdi, secretary-general of the National Council on Islamic Affairs, said the sheik left New York to visit friends in Detroit. Mehdi added that Sheik Omar was exhausted by the publicity surrounding the January hearing in a federal immigration court in Newark, New Jersey, when the cleric was threatened with deportation for failing to disclose on his visa application that he had passed a bad check in Egypt. The judge...
Sheik Mohammed Mehdi Shamseddine's statements came amid intense speculation that freedom for one or two of the Western hostages was imminent. Other religious leaders with ties to the kidnappers had predicted a hostage release in a matter of days...
Iraq's National Assembly has no record ofvetoing decisions by Saddam, but reporters counted18 of 250 delegates voting yesterday againstallowing the foreigners to leave. The assemblyspeaker, Sadi Mehdi Saleh, said he counted only 15hands...
Iran's radical parliament speaker, Mehdi Karribui, warned of Moslem terrorist acts against U.S. interests unless Washington withdraws its forces from the gulf, IRNA reported...