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LEGALLY, THREE DISTINCT TERRORIST crimes had been committed. But as investigators dug in, the same names kept popping up in all three. El Sayyid Nosair was jailed on gun-possession charges in connection with the 1990 murder of a prominent Zionist in New York City. He was repeatedly visited in...
On Thursday all 15 defendants were marched, handcuffed and in single file, into a courtroom in lower Manhattan, where they entered pleas of not guilty. The courtroom was packed with security men, since three Egyptian extremist organizations had vowed "revenge" if Abdel Rahman is harmed. Defense lawyers accused the government...
Under those rules, the government need not prove that Abdel Rahman directly ordered his followers to blow up any targets. It may be enough to show, as the indictment charges, that he "provided instruction regarding whether particular acts of terrorism were permissible or forbidden ((under Islamic law, presumably)), served as...
But where could he be sent? Egypt has put in only a quarter-hearted request for extradition; Mubarak would vastly prefer to have Abdel Rahman in a U.S. prison than on trial in Egypt, fluttering terrorists' hearts. The sheik's lawyers have talked about having him go voluntarily to Afghanistan...
FBI agents were in touch with him as early as 1991. But they did not know if they could trust him: some feared he was an Egyptian intelligence agent pursuing an agenda that was not Washington's. They recruited him as a full- time informer only after the Feb. 26...