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After an eight-month trial, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman now sits in a Manhattan jail awaiting a jury's verdict in the case accusing him of plotting a religious war against the U.S. He and nine co-defendants are charged with conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center and other New York City landmarks. In a rare interview last week, Time correspondent William Dowell talked with the blind Egyptian cleric about the trial and his anger...
...season; the leadership of Mike Hargrove, the manager who steadied the team after a tragic boating accident in the spring of '93 killed two pitchers and injured another; the savvy of general manager John Hart, who traded for Kenny Lofton, Jose Mesa, Carlos Baerga and Omar Vizquel, among others; and, of course, the new ball park, which is slightly derivative of Baltimore's Camden Yards but not at all derivative of depressing Cleveland Stadium. "What do I miss about the old ball park?" asks Hargrove. "Nothing...
...reason pressure for the bill is likely to remain high is the ongoing trial in New York of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He and 11 others have been accused of plotting to blow up the U.N. and a federal office building, as well as a bridge and two tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey. In the second week of the trial, one of Rahman's co-defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place...
...terror-plot trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, jurors were shown dramatic videotapes that, the government maintains, recorded the defendants at work. Prosecutors said one clip showed a co-defendant taking a scouting drive through a major New York City tunnel to explore where to plant a bomb, and another recorded some of the defendants trying to build an explosive. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of the government informer whose cooperation made the tapes possible...
...terror-conspiracy trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, federal prosecutors introduced transcripts of the taped conversations that are at the center of their case. In the transcripts the sheik is quoted as counseling against bombing the U.N. because it might be considered a "center of peace" and targeting instead "the American Army itself...