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...that radical Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman has finally been taken into custody, perhaps the comedy of errors has come...
...joke continued, as this cartoon character--a pudgy, infantile man in a red hat that made him look like a blind, suntanned Santa Claus in shades--gained nationwide notoriety as the spiritual counselor to the World Trade Center bombers. Yet the sheik remained free in the wake of the bombing, even though, aside from his circumstantial involvement with the bombers, he was an illegal alien...
...could anyone believe this story anything but a farce when Sheik Rahman wound up on newspaper covers and the nightly news once again, this time for his connection with a cell of terrorists plotting to wreak havoc on New York City on July...
Rahman had his associates tell the press that the extensive coverage had worn him out and that he needed to get away from it all--and attorney general Janet Reno must have agreed, as she stopped Federal authorities from arresting the sheik at last...
With authorities reluctant to jail the troublesome cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, local politicians are wondering -- Why not kick him out? The answer is, It's not so easy. A year after he entered the U.S. in 1990, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, unaware of his revolutionary past, granted him a "green card," or permanent resident alien status. When the ins found out, it rescinded the card -- and began a nearly interminable process. In March an immigration judge found him deportable; Abdel Rahman appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, where a ruling can take from six months...