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EVER SINCE SHEIK OMAR AHMED ALI Abdel Rahman arrived in America in July 1990, he has confounded the U.S. government. His incendiary sermons at mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, have called for the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Now six of Sheik Abdel Rahman's followers have been indicted in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Little wonder that the U.S. State Department is trying to figure out how the sheik got to America in the first place...
...Bosnia has been an issue for us since the beginning of the year. I'm glad the conference has raised awareness and made people realize the grave situation in Bosnia," said Omar M. Maabreh '94, president of H.I.S., which co-sponsored "A Day for Bosnia...
...Omar M. Maabreh '94, chair of the Harvard Islamic Society, said in the same Crimson article last week...
Radicals of Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak's overthrow from mosques in the U.S., including the one in New Jersey where some of the suspects in the bombing of the World Trade Center worshipped...
...redhead had in reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman's house. When a rival of the sheik's in the Brooklyn, New York, fundamentalist community was stabbed and shot to death, Abohalima was considered a prime suspect...