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From there the trail grows tenuous and circumstantial. The mailbox on the Brooklyn apartment bears the names of both Elgabrowny and his cousin El Sayyid Nosair, who is serving a prison term on weapons-possession charges related to the 1990 slaying of Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Zionist zealot. 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...
...fundamentalist fanatics who regard all moderate Arab leaders as traitors to Islam, and the U.S. as their prime support. Whether these somewhat nebulous suspicions can ever be pinned down, let alone proved, is another matter. Sheik Omar has denounced the Trade Center bombing and claims not even to know Salameh...
Even after investigators get down into the crater to check out "the real hot stuff" and run down all the leads stemming from Salameh, Fox warns, it ! may be years before the probers can piece together a full picture of the bombing conspiracy. But then, investigators were saying much the same thing about the possibility of developing leads at all even as they were closing in on Salameh. Perhaps they will get lucky again...
...City's World Trade Center, law-enforcement technicians happened on a twisted shard from a van frame. It contained a traceable part of a vehicle ID number, leading to a van-lease paper trail in New Jersey and to a suspect. Four days later, FBI agents arrested Mohammed A. Salameh, 25, a Jordanian national of Palestinian descent residing illegally in the U.S., and charged him with taking part in the bombing. Five people died and more than 1,000 were injured in what a federal prosecutor labeled "the single most destructive act of terrorism ever committed on American soil...
...Salameh's connection to the destroyed van was firm: he had not only shown ID when renting it but also, claiming theft, later tried to retrieve a $400 deposit on the vehicle. Also, authorities said, they found manuals on circuitry and materials used in bomb building at the address Salameh gave to the rental company...