Word: omar
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...Mubarak, the dead terrorist's Afghanistan connection is an important one. The President has insisted that the campaign of extremist violence in Egypt was sparked by the return of Afghan war volunteers, many of them inspired by the fiery preaching of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now in jail in the U.S. who is linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says...
Time was running out last week for radical Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. A federal judge refused to stay a deportation order for the blind cleric, giving him and his lawyers until the end of this week to file an appeal. The sheik's followers are charged with terrorist plots in New York City, including last February's bombing of the World Trade Center...
...Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visits Khartoum, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel soon arrive to train the fundamentalist people's militias set up by Sudan's Islamic regime. Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group, some of whose members are charged with bombing the World Trade Center, obtained his U.S. visa in Khartoum...
...said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest airplane hijackings of the 1980s was shocked last week to find himself in a Washington court. Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq had been in a Ghanaian prison when authorities put him on a plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After...
Washington and Cairo cooperated last week to keep Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman out of circulation. The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals rejected an asylum bid by the radical Muslim cleric, now being held in a federal prison, and upheld a deportation order issued in March. Egyptian authorities also began seeking his extradition to face charges of inciting antigovernment riots in Egypt in 1989 -- though the 1874 treaty governing extradition between the U.S. and Egypt does not appear to cover that offense. Egypt hanged seven of the sheik's followers last week for attacks against foreign tourists and conspiring to overthrow...