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...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...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
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...
...SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN...
...after day, the question flew at her: Why haven't you arrested the sheik? As federal agents continued to round up suspects in the plot to blow up New York City, spiritual leader Omar Abdel Rahman was left untouched. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, an assassination target, was holding angry press conferences. President Clinton was getting frustrated...