Word: omar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With acquisitions like Eddie Murray, Dennis Martinez, and Omar Vizquel, look for the Tribe to give the Chicago White Sox a race to the finish line in the revamped (should I say depleted?) AL Norris, er, Central...
...league's preseason media poll this yearplaced Columbia in dead last by a large margin,and for good reason. With the league's leadingscorer, Buck Jenkins, and his mates Tom Casey, ParDowning and Omar Sanders all gone, Coach JackRohan will enter this year with considerably lowerexpectations than he did last season...
...recalls that many listeners were Egyptian expatriates, like Abouhalima, who had undergone college training for a profession but were forced to take menial jobs in America. Some felt demeaned. Most were alienated, lonely, and suffered from guilt at having abandoned Egypt. "It was easy for a speaker like Sheik Omar to exploit those feelings," says the observer, "and that is exactly what he was doing...
...bodyguard and driver, a fact that Abouhalima has confirmed to the New York Times despite the sheik's claim that he doesn't know the man. The sheik's sponsor in America was Shalabi, Abouhalima's boss at the Afghan recruitment center in Brooklyn. Before long, Shalabi and Sheik Omar became entangled in a struggle for leadership of the Muslim circle. In March 1991 Shalabi was found shot and stabbed to death on the floor of his apartment...
...dead man's family believes he was murdered on Sheik Omar's orders. Some say Rahman accused him of working for the CIA and stealing money intended for the rebels. "I think the sheik was simply jealous because Shalabi was becoming too powerful," says a police investigator. Despite his long friendship with Shalabi, Abouhalima emerged as a prime murder suspect, but he was never charged, and the case remains unsolved. Seven days after Shalabi's murder, the FBI received a tip that Abouhalima was harboring explosives. Dressed as utility workers, federal agents searched his Brooklyn apartment but came up empty...