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...Salameh is guilty, it still must be determined how to account for what looked like his extraordinary stupidity in renting a van under his own name, presenting a valid New York driver's license with a real and traceable phone number and, instead of disappearing after the bombing, calling attention to himself by repeatedly trying to recover the deposit. Such behavior seemed to indicate that the plot was a wildly amateurish -- though horribly successful -- operation...
There are other opinions, however. Some experts note that sophisticated foreign terrorists sometimes make cynical use of gullible young zealots who are misled as to what they are really doing. Another theory holds that Salameh and/or associates theorized, wrongly but understandably, that the blast would so obliterate all traces of the van that it could never be identified. In that case, leaving a rented van missing and unaccounted for would be the way to arouse suspicion, so that reporting it stolen and demanding the deposit back would be a way of diverting attention. But why rent...
...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...
...same time as the raid on the Jersey City apartment, FBI agents went to an apartment in Brooklyn where Salameh apparently had once lived (its address is on his driver's license). There they found Ibrahim Elgabrowny, a 42-year-old self-employed carpenter, who allegedly tried to punch an investigating agent and was arrested on a charge of obstructing justice. At a court hearing Friday, Judge Owen mysteriously remarked that Elgabrowny might be involved "up to his eyeballs" in the Trade Center bombing...
...Friday federal authorities raided Space Station, a storage facility about a mile from the apartment where Salameh once lived. Witnesses saw three trucks emerge, hauling away what were thought to be containers of sulfuric acid, nitric acid and urea, chemicals that could be used to make explosives. Jersey City police would say only that they "found a lot of stuff that may be linked to Salameh" and took it to an undisclosed destination for examination...