Word: abdel
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...July. Their goal is to get far enough inside to explore the staircases and lower level. Weeks estimates that it will take at least five years to study and map the entire tomb, protect the decorations, install climate controls and electricity and shore up the precarious sections. Says Abdel Halim Nur el Din, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities: "We're in no hurry to open this tomb to the public. We already have 10 or 12 that they can visit." It is more important to preserve the tombs that have already been excavated, say the Egyptians...
...reason pressure for the bill is likely to remain high is the ongoing trial in New York of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He and 11 others have been accused of plotting to blow up the U.N. and a federal office building, as well as a bridge and two tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey. In the second week of the trial, one of Rahman's co-defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place...
...terror-plot trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, jurors were shown dramatic videotapes that, the government maintains, recorded the defendants at work. Prosecutors said one clip showed a co-defendant taking a scouting drive through a major New York City tunnel to explore where to plant a bomb, and another recorded some of the defendants trying to build an explosive. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of the government informer whose cooperation made the tapes possible...
...terror-conspiracy trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, federal prosecutors introduced transcripts of the taped conversations that are at the center of their case. In the transcripts the sheik is quoted as counseling against bombing the U.N. because it might be considered a "center of peace" and targeting instead "the American Army itself...
...Scotland to its Ten Most Wanted list, promising a record $4 million reward for information leading to their capture and conviction. "We'll follow them to the ends of the world to bring them to court," Robert "Bear" Bryant, an assistant FBI director, told a news conference. The suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were charged in the U.S. and Scotland in 1991 with planting a suitcase bomb that killed all 270 people aboard 103. The FBI, which believes they've been hiding in Libya, says it will employ "innovative methods . . . to elicit the cooperation...