Word: siddig
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...pressed suit and silver tie. He refused a translator, waived his right to have his 11-count indictment read, and replied ``Not guilty'' when the judge asked him for his plea. He was then led back to his maximum-security cell. The capture of Yousef and the admissions of Siddig Ali will bring to an end the case of the Tower bombing. But it may not answer the nagging questions of just who were their sponsors and whether they intend to strike again...
...sensed that the volunteers had a wider agenda. Even so, their zeal in combat amazed even the fearless Afghans. "The Arabs were crazy fighters, charging into any fire," recalls Ahmed Muwafak Zaidan, a Syrian writer who covered the war. An Egyptian scholar in Pakistan remembers Abouhalima and conspiracy defendant Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali as "very good commanders who fought in various provinces" of Afghanistan...
...case, Abouhalima joined Salameh to remove explosives from a New Jersey apartment, the indictment claims. In another instance, prosecutors say they can prove Abouhalima participated in a "test explosion." The alleged test may have taken place in a remote part of Pennsylvania, where Abouhalima conducted weapons training with Siddig Ali, his fellow "commander" from the Afghan war, who will stand trial next year. Furthermore, the witnesses at the Jersey City filling station claim they saw Abouhalima and Salameh gassing up the yellow van just hours before the bombing. Their accounts are considered so crucial that they have been placed under...
...murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge and the heavily Jewish New York City diamond district...
...however, was that the agency just did not have enough to link Abdel Rahman to the plot in anything but a marginal way. FBI agents did raid Abdel Rahman's apartment in Jersey City and carted away boxes of documents and tapes -- said to have been left there by Siddig Ali for safekeeping -- but no other action immediately followed...