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EVER SINCE SHEIK OMAR AHMED ALI Abdel Rahman arrived in America in July 1990, he has confounded the U.S. government. His incendiary sermons at mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, have called for the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Now six of Sheik Abdel Rahman's followers have been indicted in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Little wonder that the U.S. State Department is trying to figure out how the sheik got to America in the first place...
Radicals of Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak's overthrow from mosques in the U.S., including the one in New Jersey where some of the suspects in the bombing of the World Trade Center worshipped...
...redhead had in reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman's house. When a rival of the sheik's in the Brooklyn, New York, fundamentalist community was stabbed and shot to death, Abohalima was considered a prime suspect...
Coincidentally, 49 Muslim militants who have been charged with attacks on foreign tourists -- prime targets of late -- went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
...Palestinian descent and they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though it is still not certain if he was referring to Al-Salam Mosque in Jersey City, where Salameh worshipped on occasion and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Egyptian cleric, often preaches...