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Another suspect, Bilal Alkaisi, surrendered voluntarily in Newark, New Jersey, and was held for a bail hearing this week. That brings to five the number in custody and may be close to completing a roundup; authorities are believed to be looking for only one other suspect. But it scarcely completes the investigation. Abohalima and two of the other suspects have been arraigned only on general aiding and abetting charges (like another suspect accused of obstructing justice, they have all asserted innocence). Authorities have yet to spell out any theory of who did what: Who actually made the bomb; who drove...
...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 about sponsors and trainers in Iran or Iraq began to fade away. Said James Esposito, head of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office: "The circle is now very narrow...
...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 has yet to rule...
Sheik Omar has put in his bid for something more dramatic. In January, one week before his appearance before the federal immigration court in Newark, he said he wanted to return to Egypt if he was deported. "If they kill me," he said of his possible return, "that will be a certificate that I am a martyr...
...even before the answers were in as to who had planted the bomb, a new question -- whether a season of terrorism might begin in the U.S. -- had been raised. In the wake of the explosion, bomb threats forced the evacuation of the Empire State Building and Newark airport. Both threats were false, but no one was ready to dismiss the likelihood of another assault. Around the country, airports and other public facilities stepped up security. The blast was a reminder of the vulnerability of most American office buildings, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. Even the U.S. government...