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...airline ticket. Shortly before Mohammed Salameh, the renter of the fatal Ryder van, was arrested, Abohalima literally took flight. Some thought to South Africa; others to Pakistan. One official merely lamented, "He's been lost track of. God knows where...
...that day he phoned from a nearby booth to Ayyad's office at AlliedSignal, calls that Salameh's lawyer, Robert Precht, insists concerned "a family matter." Moreover, the complaint states, sometime around Feb. 15, Ayyad rented a red General Motors sedan and listed "Salameh" as a second driver. A Ryder truck-rental employee says that on Feb. 23, when Salameh rented the yellow van believed to have been used in the bombing, he was accompanied by a man driving a red General Motors sedan...
Instead, the fbi decided to mount a sting. Over the phone early Thursday morning, Ryder agent Patrick Galasso told Salameh he could get some money even without a police report of the van's theft. A farcical scene followed. According to some reports, two TV-news trucks showed up before the suspect did; Connie Bello, a Ryder day manager, chased them away by telling them they had the wrong Ryder office. It is known that Salameh had in fact reported the supposed theft of the van to Jersey City police. By some accounts two Jersey cops also showed...
...accused man requested bail. He said he could line up 10 people who would offer $50,000 cash, enough to secure a $5 million bond -- an odd assertion for a suspect who had been feverishly trying to get $400 back from Ryder. But declaring Salameh a "serious risk," Judge Owen ordered the suspect held without bail for a preliminary hearing March 18. Salameh later told his attorney he was innocent and believed he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs. Precht says his client has requested a copy of the Koran, a watch so he can pray at the proper...
...event, Salameh's arrest promptly led to a widening investigation. The complaint read at his court appearance detailed the results of one follow-up. It seems that Salameh had given Ryder a phone number that turned out to be registered to one Josie Hadas at an apartment in Jersey City. Salameh may have been living there, but FBI agents apparently found no proof when they searched the apartment. What they did find, according to the court papers, was a letter addressed to Salameh (contents undisclosed), "tools and wiring, and manuals concerning antennae, circuitry and electromagnetic devices." One expert interpreted these...