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What's known for certain is that the American embassy in Khartoum gave him a visa in May 1990. This shouldn't have happened: since 1987, the blind Egyptian cleric had been on the State Department's watch list for suspected terrorists. When Sheik Abdel Rahman arrived at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum in May 1990 and asked for a visa, a Sudanese employee checked his name against a list of names on microfiche from the department's Automated Visa Lookout System. The employee said there were no "hits" against the name...
...Khartoum embassy realized its mistake three days later, when it received a cable from a U.S. official in Cairo saying Sheik Abdel Rahman was heading for Sudan. The embassy sent an urgent message informing the State Department that the sheik had been given a visa by mistake. Khartoum officials, who hoped to snag the sheik and revoke the visa, thought he would leave for the U.S. on a specific flight. But the sheik flew to Pakistan instead...
State Department officials believe a copy of Khartoum's cable was sent to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, but the INS says it has not found it. All sides agree, however, that when the Khartoum embassy failed to cancel the visa, Washington should have been alerted so that it could tell INS to put Sheik Abdel Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally...
...light gray sweat suit that billowed around him. Federal authorities in Washington later disclosed some basic information about the suspect. He is 25 years old, an Arab who was born on the West Bank but grew up in Jordan. He entered the U.S. in 1987 with a five-year visa and remained in the country illegally. New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly later said that Salameh was "not unknown" to his department, and an FBI official in Washington confirmed that Salameh's name had turned up in a search of the bureau's files on suspected terrorists, though obviously before...
...Islamic Affairs, said the sheik left New York to visit friends in Detroit. Mehdi added that Sheik Omar was exhausted by the publicity surrounding the January hearing in a federal immigration court in Newark, New Jersey, when the cleric was threatened with deportation for failing to disclose on his visa application that he had passed a bad check in Egypt. The judge has yet to rule...