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...black comedy of errors that followed the explosion suggests either a costly mistake -- or the work of rank amateurs. By the time federal agents arrested Nidal Ayyad, 25, at his home in Maplewood, New Jersey, they had ( several pieces of evidence linking him to the first suspect seized, Mohammed Salameh, starting with the business card they found in Salameh's pocket. Although Ayyad is from Kuwait and Salameh is from Jordan, both men are of Palestinian descent and they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though...
...federal complaint against Ayyad states that on Feb. 25, the day before the blast, Salameh made several trips to a storage shed in Jersey City, where he kept his bombmaking materials. Four times 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...
...joint bank account at the branch of the National Westminster Bank located near Al-Salam Mosque, where investigators say the men placed several deposits of less than $10,000. Federal agents say at least $8,000 was transferred to the account from Germany last year and was withdrawn by Salameh. One bank employee said, "We are talking about small amounts -- well under anything that would raise any kind of suspicion." Precht insists that the total account never exceeded $10,000 and was closed shortly before Ayyad's marriage last December...
...Salameh, by contrast, was a drifter, never settling into a permanent home or regular job. His grades in school were so mediocre that he could not get into the university law or science programs; his only option was to attend the University of Jordan's college of religious law, where one professor recalls that Salameh was involved in fundamentalist student activities...
Waco represented a micro-fanaticism. The week's other case suggested larger issues, a macro-drama. It may have involved religion in more political form. The arrest of a 25-year-old Muslim named Mohammed Salameh raised the specter that the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center was perhaps a terrorist act of intense cultural symbolism, framed in religious context. And it brought serious terrorism across the American threshold for the first time...