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...York City-based group comprising rappers Priest, Beans and Sayyid along with producer Earl Blaize, the Consortium makes music that could best be described as art-school hip-hop. The free-flowing lyrics on this album are inspired by poetry slams; the rhythms are stripped-down and direct, keeping the focus on the words. These songs are, by turns, grandly prophetic, perversely abstract and straight-up street. Far from a tragic epilogue, this is a welcome addition to the growing canon of outsider...
...December 1991 one of Abouhalima's friends from the Afghan center, El Sayyid Nosair, was put on trial for the shooting death of Rabbi Kahane the previous year. In this case too, Abouhalima was briefly a suspect. Police believed he was the intended getaway driver but that Nosair jumped into the wrong taxi by mistake. In 1991 Nosair was acquitted of murder but convicted on assault and weapons-related charges. In August the sweeping conspiracy indictment linked Nosair to the trade-center plot as well...
LEGALLY, THREE DISTINCT TERRORIST crimes had been committed. But as investigators dug in, the same names kept popping up in all three. El Sayyid Nosair was jailed on gun-possession charges in connection with the 1990 murder of a prominent Zionist in New York City. He was repeatedly visited in an upstate prison by Muslim fundamentalists accused of last February's bombing of the World Trade Center. They had links to the ring charged with plotting to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, the United Nations building and a federal office skyscraper in early July. All looked for spiritual...
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...
...Salameh's court-appointed attorney, Robert Precht, his client has not mentioned the cleric in their two conversations since his arrest. Ibrahim Elgabrowny, the second man who was picked up last week after he tried to block an FBI search of his home, is a cousin of El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian American who is currently serving up to 22 years in Attica state prison on a weapons charge related to the 1990 Kahane slaying. Like Salameh, Nosair worshipped at Al-Salam Mosque. The address where Elgabrowny was arrested is also listed on Salameh's 1992 driver's license...