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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Now This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces.</p>
 <p> By <ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> I. <ent type='PERSON'>Friedman</ent></p>
 
 <p>"They were talking all the time about targeting <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> symbols," says the
-<ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> undercover informant, "<ent type='ORG'>the Empire State Building</ent>, the Statue of
+<ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> undercover informant, "<ent type='ORG'>the Empire</ent> State Building, the Statue of
 Liberty. A few of the guys came to <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent> to pray and go home. But
 others gathered to conspire in small groups, talking in deep, low voices.
 They see the U.S. as an imperialist power, the Big Satan, the root of all
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ the evil in the world."</p>
 
 <p>The <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> operative, <ent type='PERSON'>Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary</ent>, monitored the radical activities
 at the El Salaam Mosque in <ent type='GPE'>Jersey City</ent>, which was the headquarters of the
-terrorist cell that allegedly planned and carried our the of the World
+terrorist cell that allegedly planned and carried our the of <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent>
 Trade Center on February 26. Zakhary, a heavily bearded <ent type='NORP'>Coptic</ent> Christian
 from <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent> who owned an import-export firm in <ent type='GPE'>Jersey City</ent>, spent a year and
 a half spying on the local <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> community and <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent>,
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dollars so that I can stab them in the back."</p>
 his <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> handler, Special Agent <ent type='PERSON'>Kenneth Strange</ent>. But Zakhary, who was not
 able to penetrate the cell's inner circle, had no advance warning that
 there was a plan to commit one of the most sensational acts of foreign
-terrorism on <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> soil before the bombing of <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent>:
+terrorism on <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> soil before the bombing of <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center:
 the assassination of the controversial right-wing <ent type='NORP'>Zionist</ent> leader Rabbi Meir
 <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>.</p>
 
@@ -64,21 +64,21 @@ another person I don't know. They were deep in conversation."</p>
 
 <p>Shortly after police arrested <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> they found startling evidence that the
 <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> killing was just the first in a planned spree. <ent type='PERSON'>Scrawled</ent> on a bank
-calendar in <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s home was a "hit list" that included the names of a
+calendar in Nosair's home was a "hit list" that included the names of a
 U.S. representative, two federal judges, and a former assistant U.S.
-Attorney. Local police searching <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s Cliffside Park, <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>, home
+Attorney. Local police searching Nosair's Cliffside Park, <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>, home
 discovered a trove of terrorist paraphernalia: bombmaking manuals, AK-47
-cartridges, a stolen <ent type='GPE'>New York State</ent> license plate, and a bullet-riddled
+cartridges, a stolen <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> State license plate, and a bullet-riddled
 target board. There were also a number of passports and driver's licenses
 under various names, as well as articles about the assassination of <ent type='PERSON'>Anwar</ent>
 <ent type='PERSON'>Sadat</ent>.</p>
 
-<p>But despite Zakhary's reports, <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s hit list, and the suspicious cache
+<p>But despite Zakhary's reports, Nosair's hit list, and the suspicious cache
 at his home, the authorities seemed to be downplaying all signs of a
 terrorist conspiracy. Within 12 hours of the shooting, <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent> chief
 of detectives <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph Borrelli</ent> declared the <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> assassination was the
 work of a "lone gunman." <ent type='ORG'>Borrelli</ent> added, '"There was nothing found [at
-<ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s house] that would stir your imagination."</p>
+Nosair's house] that would stir your imagination."</p>
 
 <p>One <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent> detective close to the investigation told me that the
 case was handled like a routine homicide. "They [the <ent type='ORG'>NYPD</ent>] wanted to make
@@ -87,24 +87,24 @@ homicide at the precinct level. The higher-ups didn't want to take it
 further. The police department stated that they got the gunman and that
 was it. We're not equipped to investigate international terrorism."</p>
 
-<p>But the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> is. On the eve of <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s trial, a frustrated federal
+<p>But the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> is. On the eve of Nosair's trial, a frustrated federal
 investigator told me that he didn't believe <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> had acted alone.
 "There's nothing to prove that <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> took it upon himself to [kill
 <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>]. There are many conspiracy theories. We hit a lot of dry wells."
 Yet the federal agent said that the <ent type='ORG'>NYPD</ent> had jurisdiction in the case and
-that the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent>'s investigation was "superficial."</p>
+that the FBI's investigation was "superficial."</p>
 
 <p>What investigators would have found if they had done their job thoroughly
 is that Sheikh <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> and El <ent type='PERSON'>Sayyid Nosair</ent> were at the heart of a
 far-flung terrorist conspiracy. A magnet for the angry and dispossessed of
 the <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> world, <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent>, through his violent preaching, has been
 linked to dozens of terrorist incidents in <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent> and now to the attack on
-<ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent>. an act he says he deplores.</p>
+<ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center. an act he says he deplores.</p>
 
 <p>In the aftermath of the bombing, many are wondering why there wasn't a
-comprehensive, wide-ranging investigation of Meir <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s murder. One
+comprehensive, wide-ranging investigation of Meir Kahane's murder. One
 possible explanation is offered by a counterterrorism expert for the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent>.
-At a meeting in a <ent type='ORG'>Denny</ent>'s coffee shop in <ent type='GPE'>Los Angeles</ent> a week after the
+At a meeting in a Denny's coffee shop in <ent type='GPE'>Los Angeles</ent> a week after the
 <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> assassination, the 20-year veteran field agent met with one of his
 top undercover operatives, a burly 33-year-old <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> contract employee who
 had been a premier bomber for a domestic terrorist group before being
@@ -119,10 +119,10 @@ undercover man.</p>
 
 <p>"It was no accident that the sheikh got a visa and that he's still in the
 country," replied the agent, visibly upset. "He's here under the banner of
-national security, the <ent type='ORG'>State Department</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>NSA</ent> [National Security
+national security, the State Department, the <ent type='ORG'>NSA</ent> [National Security
 Agency], and the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>." The agent pointed out that the sheikh had been
 granted a tourist visa, and later a green card, despite the fact that he
-was on a <ent type='ORG'>State Department</ent> terrorist watch-list that should have barred him
+was on a State Department terrorist watch-list that should have barred him
 from the country. He's an untouchable, concluded the agent. "I haven't
 seen the lone-gunman theory advocated [so forcefully] since John F.
 Kennedy."</p>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ he met with representatives of the <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent> <ent type='GPE'
 training for his underground terrorist group in <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>, the very same
 <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent> who were receiving financial aid and training from the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> in
 the war to rid <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent>istan of the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> Army. Even after the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent>s
-pulled out of <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent>istan in February 1989, the U.S. and the <ent type='NORP'>Saudis</ent>
+pulled out of <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent>istan in February 1989, the U.S. and the Saudis
 continued to aid the <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent> through <ent type='GPE'>Pakistan</ent> until December 1990, in an
 attempt to topple the <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent> government.</p>
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ a steady flow of money, men, and guns to <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent> bases
 and <ent type='GPE'>Pakistan</ent>. The camps became a mecca for disaffected youth from across
 the <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> world.</p>
 
-<p>Of course, the <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent>'s agenda was not exactly the same as the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>'s.
+<p>Of course, the mujahedeen's agenda was not exactly the same as the CIA's.
 While <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> was perfectly happy to accept <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> help to chase the
 godless <ent type='NORP'>Russians</ent> out of <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent>istan, it didn't stop him from teaching his
 recruits his revolutionary agenda. The camps, says the high-ranking
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ of jihad in the U.S. without being concrete," says <ent type='PERSON'>Matti Stei
 form of spiritual brainwashing called Dawa. All it takes is a few angry
 people to understand his message." A high-ranking <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>ian official agrees:
 "This man is instigating violence in a very clever way. You can't really
-hope to establish a direct link" between the sheikh and the World Trade
+hope to establish a direct link" between the sheikh and <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade
 Center bombing.</p>
 
 <p>Just four months before the bombing, <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>ian intelligence officials warned
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ filled <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>."</p>
 
 <p>Some three months after the attack on the tourist bus, a rental van packed
 with a witches' brew of sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and urea exploded in
-the subbasement of <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent>, killing six people and injuring
+the subbasement of <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center, killing six people and injuring
 more than 1000. "If they had found the exact architectural <ent type='PERSON'>Achilles</ent>' heel
-[of <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent>]," says an explosives expert who works for the
+[of <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center]," says an explosives expert who works for the
 <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent>, "on if the bomb had been a little bit bigger, not much more, 500
 pounds more, I think it would have brought her down. It's really scary."</p>
 
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ expert. If it had been, the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> might have been tracking <
 weeks in stead of Sheikh <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> and hi labyrintine web of local <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>
 terrorists</p>
 
-<p>Lost in the press avalanche about <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bombing was the
+<p>Lost in the press avalanche about <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bombing was the
 new that on the same day terrorists linked to <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> had detonated a
 bomb packed with rusty nails in the Wadi el-Ni caf , a fashionable
 restaurant in <ent type='GPE'>Cairo</ent>, killing two tourists and two <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>ians, and wounding
@@ -234,17 +234,17 @@ Foreign Relations subcommittee, puts it bluntly The <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> tr
 <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent> in terrorism, then dumped them in 1990 as part of an agreement
 with <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent>, leaving behind a ragtag army of anti-<ent type='NORP'>Western</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> extremists
 burning to vent their rage on their former patrons, <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. "One of the
-big problems here is that many suspects in <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bombing
+big problems here is that many suspects in <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bombing
 were associated with the <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent>," says <ent type='PERSON'>Blum</ent>. "And there are components
 of our government that are absolutely disinterested in following that path
 because it leads back to people we supported in the <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent> war." The first
-suspect arrested in <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bombing was <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Mohammed</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent></ent>, a
+suspect arrested in <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bombing was <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Mohammed</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent></ent>, a
 25-year-old <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> with a thick black beard and a degree from a
 <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> university in the shariah, <ent type='NORP'>Islamic</ent> religious law. On February
 23, he rented the <ent type='ORG'>Ryder</ent> van that was packed with explosives and detonated
-underneath <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent>. When it was revealed that he had
+underneath <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center. When it was revealed that he had
 returned four times to claim a $400 refund for the vehicle, which he claims
-was stolen the night before the bombing, many assumed he was either a <ent type='PERSON'>patsy</ent>
+was stolen the night before the bombing, many assumed he was either a patsy
 or the stupidest terrorist in history. What was forgotten, of course, was
 that the odds against identifying the van were astronomical.</p>
 
@@ -253,18 +253,18 @@ undercover operative who met <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent> at the El Salaam M
 ordinary man, a working man. I think that, for him, the bombing was coming
 from his heart, not his brain."</p>
 
-<p>The seeds of <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s discontent were sown in <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>, a dusty, nondescript
+<p>The seeds of Salameh's discontent were sown in <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>, a dusty, nondescript
 farming village of 6000 <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>s near <ent type='ORG'>the Nablus</ent>-Tel Aviv Highway,
 on the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent>-occupied <ent type='GPE'>West Bank</ent>. The squat, ramshackle, cinder-block
 homes line unpaved streets that are strewn with garbage. Indoor plumbing is
 rare, and the town doesn't have a single telephone. The gray concrete walls
-of <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>'s four schools are covered with pro-<ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> graffiti and fierce
+of Bidya's four schools are covered with pro-<ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> graffiti and fierce
 tirades against <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>.</p>
 
 <p><ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> is a glaring contrast to nearby <ent type='PERSON'>Ariel</ent>, the gleaming suburban
 settlement of 15000 secular <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> that was built on land expropriated from
 <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> and other nearby <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> villages in the mid 1970s. <ent type='PERSON'>Ariel</ent> has the
-look and feel of an <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Sunbelt suburb in the midst of a boom. At the
+look and feel of an <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='LOC'>Sunbelt</ent> suburb in the midst of a boom. At the
 mall in the heart of town, shops sell everything from falafel for $ 1.50 to
 expensive clothes. A large outdoor swimming pool attracts suntanned <ent type='NORP'>Jewish</ent>
 settlers, who moved to this <ent type='GPE'>West Bank</ent> outpost for its front yards and
@@ -282,12 +282,12 @@ possession of a gun or even a bullet a crime punishable by death. More
 than 10000 <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent>s were killed in the fighting; <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> suffered
 hundreds of casualties.</p>
 
-<p>After <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>'s 1948 War of Independence, the <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> Legion occupied
-the <ent type='GPE'>West Bank</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> spearheaded <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> opposition to <ent type='GPE'>Jordan</ent>'s
-King <ent type='PERSON'>Hussein</ent>, a <ent type='NORP'>Hashemite</ent> originally from <ent type='NORP'>Saudi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia who treated West
+<p>After Israel's 1948 War of Independence, the <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> Legion occupied
+the <ent type='GPE'>West Bank</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> spearheaded <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> opposition to Jordan's
+King <ent type='PERSON'>Hussein</ent>, a <ent type='NORP'>Hashemite</ent> originally from Saudi <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia who treated West
 Bank <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent>s with high-handed contempt. In 1959, 15 high-ranking
 officials of the <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> military, including a leading notable from
-<ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>, plotted King <ent type='PERSON'>Hussein</ent>'s assassination. But the <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> mukhabarut
+<ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>, plotted King Hussein's assassination. But the <ent type='NORP'>Jordanian</ent> mukhabarut
 (secret police) discovered the scheme, and the plotters were sentenced to
 death. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Mohammed</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent></ent> was born in <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> in September 1967, just three
 months after it was occupied by <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> troops in the June 1967 Six Day
@@ -298,16 +298,16 @@ won't accept occupation,' they said, 'so if the fedayeen come to <ent type='PERS
 can feed them so long as you then tell them to go. We will give you money
 for your new school and build roads and sewers."'</p>
 
-<p>But from the onset of <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> rule, <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>'s residents waged a fierce
+<p>But from the onset of <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> rule, Bidya's residents waged a fierce
 guerrilla war against the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> occupation, and <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Mohammed</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent></ent>'s family
-was in the forefront of that opposition. <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s maternal grandfather,
-one of <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>'s largest landowners, was active in the 1936 <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> Rebellion
+was in the forefront of that opposition. Salameh's maternal grandfather,
+one of Bidya's largest landowners, was active in the 1936 <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> Rebellion
 and later joined the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent>. He was arrested in the early 1980s for membership
 in the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent>, and, in spite of his advanced age, was imprisoned by the
-<ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent>s and allegedly tortured. He died soon after his release. <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s
+<ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent>s and allegedly tortured. He died soon after his release. Salameh's
 uncle spent 18 years in prison for a <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> attack on <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> civilians. <ent type='PERSON'>Odeh</ent>
-told me that <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s "hate" comes from the "injustice" of the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent>
-occupation, his uncle's and grandfather's imprisonment, and <ent type='PERSON'>Ariel</ent>'s rapid
+told me that Salameh's "hate" comes from the "injustice" of the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent>
+occupation, his uncle's and grandfather's imprisonment, and Ariel's rapid
 expansion. "<ent type='PERSON'>Ariel</ent>," says <ent type='PERSON'>Odeh</ent>, "is growing, and sucking the red blood of
 our land."</p>
 
@@ -319,16 +319,16 @@ road is closed. If you go in, we will shoot you."</p>
 <p>Earlier in the day, students had gathered in the center of <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>, shouting
 anti-<ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> slogans under a huge banner that read <ent type='ORG'>FATAH</ent> AND <ent type='ORG'>HAMAS</ent>
 TOGETHER. (<ent type='ORG'>Hamas</ent> is the large <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Islamic</ent> fundamentalist group
-dedicated to <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>'s destruction.) Then hundreds of <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> youth
+dedicated to Israel's destruction.) Then hundreds of <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> youth
 marched to <ent type='ORG'>the Nablus</ent>-Tel Aviv Highway, where young boys and girls began to
 throw stones at <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> cars. Soldiers raced to the scene and fired into
 the air, trying to disperse the demonstrators. Several armed <ent type='NORP'>Jewish</ent>
 settlers got out of their cars and fanned out among the almond trees that
 line the side of the road and started shooting. <ent type='PERSON'>Akhlam Abed</ent>, a 13-year-old
-girl, was killed. She was <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent>'s first casualty of the intifada.</p>
+girl, was killed. She was Bidya's first casualty of the intifada.</p>
 
-<p>In the wake of <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>'s lightning victory in the June 1967 Six Day War,
-<ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s parents left <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> for a squalid shantytown on the outskirts of
+<p>In the wake of Israel's lightning victory in the June 1967 Six Day War,
+Salameh's parents left <ent type='PERSON'>Bidya</ent> for a squalid shantytown on the outskirts of
 <ent type='GPE'>Amman</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Jordan</ent>, forfeiting their home and possessions, as did tens of
 thousands of <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent>s. Like all <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> youth, <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent> passionately
 followed the course of the intifada, the <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> uprising that began in
@@ -343,9 +343,9 @@ determination.</p>
 
 <p><ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>, one of 11 brothers and sisters, was an indifferent student with a
 poor self-image. According to <ent type='PERSON'>Odeh</ent>, he became a devout <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> in his
-teens. <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s parents have expressed surprise about his alleged role in
-<ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bombing. "The <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, this is from the <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, who have
-done this and blamed my son," <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent>'s mother, Aysha, told The <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>
+teens. Salameh's parents have expressed surprise about his alleged role in
+<ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bombing. "The <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, this is from the <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, who have
+done this and blamed my son," Salameh's mother, Aysha, told The <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>
 Times.</p>
 
 <p>Aysha might well blame Sheikh <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> for leading her wayward son down
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ addresses. He met <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent> not long after the sheik
 <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent>; he was captivated by the sheikh's call for jihad and the downfall
 of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, becoming his sometime gofer, according to one U.S. law-enforcement source. <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent> quickly fell into a circle of like-minded
 <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent>s, including <ent type='PERSON'>Nidal Ayyad</ent>, a chemical engineer of <ent type='NORP'>Palestinian</ent> descent
-who allegedly concocted <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bomb.</p>
+who allegedly concocted <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bomb.</p>
 
 <p>In <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent>'s name lives in infamy for his role in the October
 6, 1981, assassination of <ent type='PERSON'>Anwar</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Sadat</ent>, who was cut down in a hail of
@@ -373,13 +373,13 @@ sheikh, who continued to agitate against the <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>ian gove
 followers carried on a campaign of lethal bombings, was imprisoned for
 three months in 1985, for one month in 1986, and for four months in 1989.
 He finally left his homeland in 1990, saying, "It was too much for me."
-After brief stays in <ent type='NORP'>Saudi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia and <ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent>, the sheikh slipped into
+After brief stays in Saudi <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia and <ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent>, the sheikh slipped into
 <ent type='GPE'>Pakistan</ent>, where he forged operational links with <ent type='GPE'>mujahedeen</ent> strongman
-<ent type='PERSON'>Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</ent>, the head of a radical <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Islamic</ent> fundamentalist
+Gulbuddin <ent type='ORG'>Hekmatyar</ent>, the head of a radical <ent type='NORP'>Afghan</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Islamic</ent> fundamentalist
 army that was being covertly backed by the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>. According to Stephen Van
-Evera, an affiliate of <ent type='ORG'>Harvard</ent>'s Center for Science and International
-Affairs, <ent type='ORG'>Hekmatyar</ent> "strongly chastised <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> and its 'immoral'
-society, even while <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> lavished him with aid." In <ent type='ORG'>Hekmatyar</ent>'s
+Evera, an affiliate of Harvard's Center for Science and International
+Affairs, <ent type='ORG'>Hekmatyar</ent> "strongly chastised <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States and its 'immoral'
+society, even while <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> lavished him with aid." In Hekmatyar's
 guerrilla training camps, <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> advisers taught everything from using
 explosives to shooting down enemy planes with shoulder-held Stinger
 missiles.</p>
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ intrigue and infighting at his mosque in <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent>."</p>
 <p><ent type='PERSON'>Shalabi</ent> worshipped at the El Farouq Masjid Mosque, located in a bleak
 storefront building at 554 Atlantic Avenue in <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent>. The Friday sermons
 were delivered by <ent type='PERSON'>Abdel Rahman</ent>, until the directors of <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent> expelled
-him soon after <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s assassination.</p>
+him soon after Kahane's assassination.</p>
 
 <p>The sheikh then moved entirely to the El Salaam Mosque in <ent type='GPE'>Jersey City</ent>. The
 founder of <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent> is <ent type='PERSON'>Sultan Ibraham</ent> El Gawli, a wealthy 55-year-old
@@ -423,11 +423,11 @@ founder of <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent> is <ent type='PERSON'>Sultan Ibraham
 conspiring to export 150 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives to <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent> for use
 by the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> in a Christmas bombing. El Gawli, who sports a full, white Santa
 Claus beard, served 18 months in prison before returning to <ent type='GPE'>Jersey City</ent>.
-He often marched in front of the courthouse during <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s trial, carrying
+He often marched in front of the courthouse during Nosair's trial, carrying
 banners with fierce anti-<ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent> slogans. "It's no crime praying together,
 is it?" El Gawli asked me when I questioned him about his friendship with
 <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>.
-It was the infiltrator <ent type='PERSON'>Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary</ent> who helped U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Customs</ent> set up
+It was the infiltrator <ent type='PERSON'>Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary</ent> who helped U.S. Customs set up
 the sting operation that netted El Gawli. Zakhary , a frail man afflicted
 with blindness in one eye and a large goiter on his neck, wore a wire into
 El Galwi's office at a travel agency he owned, <ent type='ORG'>Sultan Travel</ent>, recording
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ about doing it [transporting the explosives] for God," recalls Kevin
 <p>"Sultan El Gawli was the brains behind the terror cell at <ent type='ORG'>the mosque</ent>," says
 Zakhary . "There were lots of meetings in his office. He also got foreign
 money from the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>. Many times he entertained and was visited by
-officials from <ent type='NORP'>Saudi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia, the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>."</p>
+officials from Saudi <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ia, the <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>."</p>
 
 <p>"I always thought the El Gawli case was just scratching the surface of what
 was really going on [in the El Salaam Mosque]," admits a federal official
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ the time because of an automobile accident. The <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> did no
 terminated his employment.</p>
 
 <p>"<ent type='PERSON'>Mamdouh</ent> [Zakhary] is an honest man with very good intentions," Richard
-Kennan, a U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Customs</ent> agent, told the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> newspaper Ma ariv. "[He]
+Kennan, a U.S. Customs agent, told the <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> newspaper Ma ariv. "[He]
 prevented a mass terror attack on Christmas 1985. Unfortunately, he didn't
 understand the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> system. He was confused. I'm very sorry about
 what happened to him. We tried to get him asylum in the U.S., but his
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ Vincennes accidentally shot down an <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>ian passenger plan
 killing 290 people. Six months afterward, Pan Am 103 disintegrated in a
 shower of fire and debris over <ent type='GPE'>Lockerbie</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Scotland</ent>. No one claimed credit,
 but it is widely believed in intelligence circles that the Pan Am bombing
-was <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>'s revenge.</p>
+was Iran's revenge.</p>
 
 <p>The U.S.-funded attack that killed the greatest number of innocent
 civilians took place on March 8, 1985, when the U.S. tried to liquidate
@@ -500,9 +500,9 @@ what it believed was the very symbol of international terrorism:
 fundamentalist <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> leader <ent type='PERSON'>Sheikh <ent type='PERSON'>Mohammed</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Fadlallah</ent></ent>, the head of
 <ent type='ORG'>Hizbollah</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>the Party</ent> of God. On October 23, 1983, <ent type='GPE'>Fadlallah</ent> had sent a
 suicide bomber barreling into the <ent type='NORP'>Marine</ent> compound in <ent type='GPE'>Beirut</ent>, killing 241
-<ent type='NORP'>Marine</ent>s. <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> director <ent type='PERSON'>William Casey</ent> contracted out the job of retaliation
-to <ent type='NORP'>Saudi</ent> intelligence, which sent a car packed with explosives into a
-<ent type='GPE'>Beirut</ent> slum near <ent type='GPE'>Fadlallah</ent>'s headquarters. A city block was devastated and
+<ent type='NORP'>Marine</ent>s. <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> director <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Casey contracted out the job of retaliation
+to Saudi intelligence, which sent a car packed with explosives into a
+<ent type='GPE'>Beirut</ent> slum near Fadlallah's headquarters. A city block was devastated and
 more than 90 people were buried under the rubble.</p>
 
 <p>Because of the persistent fear of <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> terror during <ent type='EVENT'>the Gulf War</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ federal agencies. Actually, there has been little evidence of <ent type='NORP'>A
 terrorism on <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> soil. The <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> raises money and spreads propaganda in
 the U.S., but has refrained from attacking targets here -- although it has
 staged murderous assaults against <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s abroad. Ironically, the week
-<ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> was bombed, a <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> official was being tried in a
+<ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center was bombed, a <ent type='ORG'>PLO</ent> official was being tried in a
 <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent> federal court for planting powerful time bombs in rented cars
 parked outside two <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> banks in <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> and the El Al terminal at
 Kennedy Airport in 1973.</p>
@@ -519,22 +519,22 @@ Kennedy Airport in 1973.</p>
 <p>Most <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s would be surprised to learn, however, that the terrorist
 group that led the hit parade through much of the 1980s was the <ent type='NORP'>Jewish</ent>
 Defense League, <ent type='PERSON'>Rabbi Meir Kahane</ent>'s fanatical right-wing <ent type='NORP'>Zionist</ent>
-organization. By 1985, the <ent type='PERSON'>JDL</ent> was ranked by the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> as the most lethal
+organization. By 1985, the <ent type='ORG'>JDL</ent> was ranked by the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> as the most lethal
 domestic terrorist group in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, overtaking the Aryan Nation, the
-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Nazi Party, and <ent type='ORG'>the Puerto Rican Revolution</ent>. The <ent type='PERSON'>JDL</ent> has been
+<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Nazi Party, and <ent type='ORG'>the Puerto Rican Revolution</ent>. The <ent type='ORG'>JDL</ent> has been
 linked to dozens of bombings and at least two assassinations, including the
 widely admired regional director of the <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Anti-Discrimination
 Committee, Alex <ent type='PERSON'>Odeh</ent>.</p>
 
 <p>For years the <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent>-born <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> had been calling for the expulsion of
 all <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>s from <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>. After moving to <ent type='GPE'>Jerusalem</ent>, he established the Kach
-Party and was elected to <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>'s parliament in 1984. He drafted a slew of
+Party and was elected to Israel's parliament in 1984. He drafted a slew of
 bills that were never passed, including one that would have made it a crime
 punishable by two years in prison for a <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent> to have sex with an <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>.
-<ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent>'s High Court banned <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> from running for reelection in 1988 on
+Israel's High Court banned <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> from running for reelection in 1988 on
 the grounds that his party was racist and antidemocratic.</p>
 
-<p>It seems certain now that <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s fanatical ideas made him the target of
+<p>It seems certain now that Kahane's fanatical ideas made him the target of
 terrorism himself. On November 5, 1990, he gave the last speech of his
 life. "My whole life has been ideas which eventually were taken up by
 other people and succeeded," said <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> in his characteristic stutter, an
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ before a new <ent type='EVENT'>Holocaust</ent> engulfed them in <ent type='GPE'>
 passion out there," thundered <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>, "with a virulence that's frightening
 to see."</p>
 
-<p>Following <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s speech, El <ent type='PERSON'>Sayyid Nosair</ent> approached the podium wearing a
+<p>Following Kahane's speech, El <ent type='PERSON'>Sayyid Nosair</ent> approached the podium wearing a
 black yarmulke, as if to ask a question. Moments later, <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> was dead.
 In the irony of ironies, the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> put the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> branch of <ent type='ORG'>the Kach Party</ent>
 under surveillance to prevent it from avenging their slain leader. The <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent>
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ failed, however, to monitor activities at the radical mosques.</p>
 tunic and a white skullcap with the words ALLAH WILL BE VICTORIOUS knitted
 in bold blue <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ic calligraphy across the front, began our 90-minute talk
 by handing me a number of pamphlets showing why <ent type='ORG'>Islam</ent> was the true path. "I
-started to practice my religion as much as I can since I came to the United
+started to practice my religion as much as I can since I came to <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
 States," said <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>. "Of course, I read a lot. I read about different
 religions -- <ent type='NORP'>Christianity</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Judaism</ent> -- I studied all these religions that
 led me to believe that <ent type='ORG'>Islam</ent> is the true way of life.</p>
@@ -579,21 +579,21 @@ not because of race or blood (the <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>s too are <ent type
 state -- that's why we try to preach <ent type='ORG'>Islam</ent> to everybody."</p>
 
 <p><ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> admitted he is a big "celebrity" in the <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent> world, where he is
-credited with killing <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>. When <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s wife, <ent type='ORG'>Caren</ent>, a blue-eyed <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>
+credited with killing <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>. When Nosair's wife, <ent type='ORG'>Caren</ent>, a blue-eyed <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>
 <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> convert to <ent type='ORG'>Islam</ent>, and three children traveled to <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent> a year
-after <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s murder, they were met at the airport by government officials
-and driven through <ent type='GPE'>Cairo</ent> in a motorcade. <ent type='ORG'>Caren</ent>'s chaperone was none other
-than <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s cousin, <ent type='PERSON'>Ibraham Elgabrowny</ent>.</p>
+after Kahane's murder, they were met at the airport by government officials
+and driven through <ent type='GPE'>Cairo</ent> in a motorcade. Caren's chaperone was none other
+than Nosair's cousin, <ent type='PERSON'>Ibraham Elgabrowny</ent>.</p>
 
-<p><ent type='ORG'>Elgabrowny</ent> had helped raise more than $250000 for <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s legal defense.
+<p><ent type='ORG'>Elgabrowny</ent> had helped raise more than $250000 for Nosair's legal defense.
 The trial turned out to be one of the most shocking in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> history.
 The <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> D.A.'s case against <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> was as narrowly focused as the
 investigation had been. The prosecution didn't present any of the evidence
-police found in <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s apartment suggesting his terrorist connections'
-and never offered the jury an explanation of <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s motive, despite the
-fact that <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> Assistant District Attorney <ent type='PERSON'>William Greenbaum</ent> knew that
+police found in Nosair's apartment suggesting his terrorist connections'
+and never offered the jury an explanation of Nosair's motive, despite the
+fact that <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> Assistant District Attorney <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Greenbaum</ent> knew that
 <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> was bragging to fellow inmates at <ent type='LOC'>Rikers Island</ent> that "Allah chose me
-to kill the big <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>." At least one inmate reported <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s confession to
+to kill the big <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>." At least one inmate reported Nosair's confession to
 the D.A.'s office, according to sources close to the investigation. After
 close questioning that included a lie-detector test, the inmate was deemed
 highly credible by the D.A. But in a catastrophic miscalculation, <ent type='PERSON'>Greenbaum</ent>
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ decided not to put the inmate on the stand.</p>
 
 <p>The D.A. believed there was ample evidence to convict <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> without
 delving into his motive, which would have led the trial into the swamp of
-<ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s radical ideas, 50 years of <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> enmity, and the internal
-politics of <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>. What looked to every observer like an open-and-shut case ended with <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s stunning acquittal; he was, however,
+Kahane's radical ideas, 50 years of <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> enmity, and the internal
+politics of <ent type='GPE'>Israel</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Egypt</ent>. What looked to every observer like an open-and-shut case ended with Nosair's stunning acquittal; he was, however,
 sentenced to 22 years for related charges.</p>
 
 <p>"In this case the result is so jarring that has tempted people to talk
@@ -610,16 +610,16 @@ about taking the law into their own hands," former U.S. Attorney Rudolph
 <ent type='PERSON'>Giuliani</ent> wrote to <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> U.S. Attorney <ent type='PERSON'>Otto Obermaier</ent> after the verdict.
 <ent type='PERSON'>Giuliani</ent> recommended that the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> reopen the <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> investigation. The
 Justice Department refused, and the case dimmed from public memory until
-<ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> was bombed.</p>
+<ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center was bombed.</p>
 
 <p>The authorities are just now reopening the <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> investigation. It is
-possible that <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> will be tried in federal court for violating <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s
+possible that <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> will be tried in federal court for violating Kahane's
 civil rights, much as the police in the <ent type='PERSON'>Rodney King</ent> case are now being
-tried. A new investigation may find that the bombers of the World Trade
-Center were also <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s killers. The connections seem strong. Both
+tried. A new investigation may find that the bombers of <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade
+Center were also Kahane's killers. The connections seem strong. Both
 <ent type='ORG'>Elgabrowny</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Salameh</ent> visited <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Attica</ent>. And federal agents found
 forged <ent type='NORP'>Nicaraguan</ent> passports made out to <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent> and his family in
-<ent type='ORG'>Elgabrowny</ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent> brownstone. <ent type='GPE'>Attica</ent> officials are currently
+Elgabrowny's <ent type='GPE'>Brooklyn</ent> brownstone. <ent type='GPE'>Attica</ent> officials are currently
 investigating whether an escape was being planned.</p>
 
 <p>Another suspect in the case, <ent type='PERSON'>Mahmud Abouhalima</ent>, a <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent> taxi driver
@@ -633,10 +633,10 @@ prosecutor, Kansi had told his roommate that he was going to commit a
 violent act to protest what he perceived as <ent type='NORP'>Western</ent> mistreatment of
 <ent type='NORP'>Muslim</ent>s.</p>
 
-<p>This much is certain: Just 12 hours after <ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent>'s killing, the government
-was espousing the lone-gunman theory and <ent type='ORG'>Nosair</ent>'s terrorist connections
+<p>This much is certain: Just 12 hours after Kahane's killing, the government
+was espousing the lone-gunman theory and Nosair's terrorist connections
 were ignored. Had the investigation into the assassination of Rabbi Meir
-<ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> been vigorously pursued, <ent type='ORG'>the World Trade Center</ent> bombing may never
+<ent type='PERSON'>Kahane</ent> been vigorously pursued, <ent type='ORG'>the World</ent> Trade Center bombing may never
 have happened.</p>
 
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