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Bringing in the Sheik...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman has finally been indicted for conspiring with 14 of his followers to wage what prosecutors last week called a "war of urban terrorism." The group allegedly orchestrated February's World Trade Center bombing and plotted to attack other New York City landmarks. Though at first the radical cleric could not be directly linked to the acts, a federal grand jury indicted him under a seldom-used sedition...
...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 guidance to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian preacher of Islamic radicalism. Finally last week federal prosecutors declared that the three cases were part of a single terrorist conspiracy led by Abdel Rahman. A grand jury in New York City indicted Abdel Rahman, Nosair and 13 others on sweeping charges that they...
Although that suspicion was not new, Attorney General Janet Reno had decided two months ago that there was not enough evidence against Sheik Abdel Rahman. When New York politicians angrily protested against letting him walk around free, the best Reno and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White could think of was to arrest him on a charge of violating immigration laws. Federal authorities say no startling piece of new evidence or major new witness knitted their case together. Rather, they assert, good police work did it: the sifting and analysis of many bits of information gradually filled out a picture...
...more important, however, are tapes recording 150 hours of conversation between various defendants and Emad Salem, who was simultaneously Sheik Abdel Rahman's bodyguard and an FBI informer. Salem is not named in the indictment but is obviously the "person known to the grand jury" who is referred to time and again. He allegedly was recruited into the conspiracy in November 1991, and helped plot bombings...