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Just how long that calculation will hold is now up to a phalanx of lawyers. Last Friday the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington rejected the sheik's bid for asylum and upheld a March ruling that he could be deported. He can appeal in federal court -- but that process could be short-circuited by an extradition request filed in early July by Egypt. Cairo has requested his return to stand trial for inciting a 1989 riot outside a mosque in Faiyum, southwest of the capital. But Abdel Rahman is almost certain to fight extradition on grounds that...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
Frustrated for months by Sheik Abdel Rahman's growing visibility, enhanced by his ties to some suspects in the World Trade Center bombing and the foiled conspiracy to bomb a handful of other New York City sites, Mubarak was also impatient with the presumption of innocence accorded the sheik by U.S. law. Once the Justice Department decided to detain the blind diabetic cleric, however, Mubarak approved the executions, apparently calculating that a Sheik Abdel Rahman in jail was far less likely to make trouble for him than one on the loose...
...SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN...
...Waco, Texas, a biblical battle over lost souls; two weeks ago, it was terrorism, when she laid out for President Clinton the case against Iraq for plotting to kill former President Bush and tracked the serial bomber who wounded professors in Connecticut and California. Last week it was Sheik Rahman, when once again Reno's agents from the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service were on the front lines. The Attorney General is the people's lawyer, America's Chief of Police. When she became the first woman to hold the job, Reno didn't know she was going...