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...Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group, some of whose members are charged with bombing the World Trade Center, obtained his U.S. visa in Khartoum...
Sudan has long enjoyed a reputation throughout the Islamic world for hospitality. Any Muslim is allowed to enter the country without a visa, no questions asked. Israeli intelligence sources say large numbers of fundamentalist Muslims who fought alongside the Afghans in their war against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul ended up in Sudan. Arab countries who had happily shipped off their extremists to Afghanistan were leery of taking them back. Egypt passed a law allowing the execution of any Egyptian who had undergone military training abroad...
...Americans by the Soviets, who claimed to have discovered it among German documents seized in the war, indicated he had been trained as a Wachmann, or guard, for the SS. U.S. officials thought Demjanjuk and Marchenko were one and the same. In his 1951 application for a U.S. visa, Demjanjuk incorrectly listed his mother's maiden name as Marchenko. He said he had forgotten her real name and simply selected a common Ukrainian surname, but his choice gave rise to speculation that he had used Marchenko as an alias at Treblinka...
...fundamentalist revolution, Egyptians sniped back that the Americans were bungling the entire affair and turning an otherwise inconsequential cleric into a hero for Egypt's disaffected youth. Mubarak was quoted in the Egyptian press as saying "the sheik has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan. The visa he got was not issued by mistake. It is because of the services...
...State Department has admitted that it should not have granted Sheik Abdel Rahman a multiple-entry visa in 1990 since he had been on the watch list for suspected terrorists since 1987. A classified report by the department's inspector general concludes that it was issued by mistake. But Egyptian fears will be fed by one discovery: sources have told Time that the U.S. diplomat who approved the sheik's visa application in Khartoum was a CIA officer working under cover in the consular office when the sheik's case came up. A CIA spokesman says the agency has found...