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...supporting Israel, even after its army shelled a United Nations compound in the Lebanese village of Qana last April, killing more than 100 civilians. Threats have also come from Egypt's Islamic Group, which has pledged to strike at the U.S. for imprisoning its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, was convicted last year of plotting to blow up the U.N. and several other New York landmarks. He is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. Speculation also surrounds the hard-line Palestinian group Hamas, which has vowed to attack the U.S. for agreeing...
...bronze, what interests us is the medals of morals and honor." Cuban baseball officials, who are used to this sort of thing by now, were more blase and fatalistic about Arrojo's departure, even though Arrojo pitched six shutout innings against Team USA on June 29. Third baseman Omar Linares, the player long and most coveted by major league scouts, told Lawes, "It's a personal decision. Each person must live his own life-style. But [every Cuban player] is more dedicated now to our purpose." Evaristo Ruiz, head of Cuba's baseball delegation, likened Arrojo's defection...
Sitting cross-legged on the ground next to the stables, he refused to speak about a number of issues, including his exact links with the governments of Sudan and Iran or with convicted terrorists like Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, now in a U.S. prison. However, he disavowed any involvement in the Riyadh bombing and the recent suicide attacks in Israel. "It is no surprise to me that corrupt regimes would make such charges," he says...
...nation's biggest terrorism trial ended with a lengthy harangue from Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman castigating the U.S. as the "enemy of Islam"--and a federal judge's imposition of a life sentence on him for his role in the plot to bomb major New York City landmarks. The nine co-defendants, who were convicted with the Sheik last October, received sentences ranging from 25 years to life. The judge said if the plan had been carried out, it would have caused "devastation on a scale not seen in this country since the Civil...
...YORK CITY: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine of his followers were sentenced to lengthy jail terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case...