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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Sheik Got In | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

Reinhard's throw missed the first baseman's glove, and the Brown runner who had advanced to third on the hit took the overthrow opportunity to score. And that was that...

Author: By Aimee C. Pease, | Title: Softball Lose Two To Brown | 4/28/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble on The Nile | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...Salameh is known to have worshipped at a Jersey City mosque -- actually a bare room under a leaky roof -- where he would have heard the fiery sermons of Sheik Omar Abdel- Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt whom the U.S. government is trying to deport. The sheik vocally advocates overthrow of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. ally, and some merchants in the Little Egypt section of Jersey City speak of the mosque and its communicants with fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Dumb Luck | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

With a fear of overthrow with which only Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette could have sympathized, hundreds of NoHosers fought long and hard that night for the honor of Woody and Hannah Hastings, the much acclaimed "Co. masters of the Universe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

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