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<p>WRONG NUMBER FILENAME: WTCBOMB2.ZIP </p>
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<p> [From _The Village Voice_, April 6, 1993] </p>
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<p> THE SHEIK'S REWARD </p>
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<p> Will the CIA Come Clean About Abdel Rahman? </p>
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<p> By Robert I. Friedman </p>
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<p> Several prominent law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of
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anonymity, say that it appears that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman was allowed to
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enter the United States because of his support for the mujahedeen -- the
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fractious coalition of CIA-backed Islamic extremists who fought the Soviet
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army in Afghanistan and later the moderate regime in Kabul. </p>
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<p> The Voice revealed last week that in 1990 Abdel Rahman left Egypt for
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Peshawar, Pakistan, where he met rebel Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar,
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who was already providing training for the sheikh's militant fundamentalist
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terrorist group in Egypt, Al Gamaat al Islamia. The rebel camps were
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"schools for Jihad," where fundamentalists from across the Muslim world
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received courses in everything from making car bombs to shooting down
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planes with American-made Stinger missiles. After several months in
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Peshawar, Abdel Rahman traveled to Khartoum, Sudan, where he received a
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U.S. tourist visa, despite his presence on a State Department terrorist
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watch-list that should have barred him from the country. In America, where
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he was also granted a green card, Abdel Rahman raised funds and recruits
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for the mujahedeen, many of them first-generation Muslim immigrants living
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in Brooklyn and New Jersey. One was Mahmud Abouhalima, a World Trade
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Center bombing suspect and an Afghan war veteran. </p>
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<p> Not only did the sheikh encourage his flock of Muslim zealots to fight the
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godless <span class="NORP">Russians</span> in Afghanistan, but he also exhorted his followers in
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Egypt to wage a terror campaign against Hosni Mubarak's secular government.
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In a CNN interview Monday, Mubarak said that a current wave of terror
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bombings in Egypt was being funded by a U.S. group tied to Abdel Rahman.
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"There is an association in New Jersey collecting a lot of money for the
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refugees in Afghanistan," said Mubarak. "All this money is now being
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channeled to those extremists [in Egypt]." </p>
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<p> But even as the <span class="NORP">Egyptian</span> government begged the U.S. not to coddle the
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sheikh, who was smuggling cassettes of his fiery speeches into Egypt --
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much the way Ayatollah Khomeini did from his safe-haven in France before
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the fall of the shah -- Abdel Rahman was also denouncing his patron,
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America, as the root of all evil. </p>
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<p> Although the sheikh is apparently at the heart of a far-flung terrorist
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conspiracy, he is not considered a suspect in the World Trade Center
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bombing. Incredibly, the FBI has not even questioned him about the blast,
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and only last week was he reportedly placed under round-the-clock federal
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surveillance. </p>
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<p> "My gut feeling is that we are protecting the sheikh," says a law enforcement source familiar with the case. "We got him a visa as a reward
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for his help in Afghanistan." </p>
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<p> The source worries that the FBI appears to be shutting down the
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investigation prematurely. "My ears perked up when I heard the FBI say
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that they have apprehended all but one of the World Trade Center bombers,"
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he says. "These guys [the suspects) don't look like self-starters to me."
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Professionals from abroad, he says, may have assisted the suspects. </p>
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<p> The FBI already has been criticized for failing to untangle the terrorist
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web around El Sayyid Nosair, following the murder of the Zionist demagogue
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Rabbi Meir Kahane. Just 12 hours after Kahane's shooting, the government
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was espousing the theory that Nosair was a lone gunman, despite having
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found considerable evidence that appeared to link him to a wider terrorist
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network. </p>
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<p> Sheikh Abdel Rahman causes chaos wherever he goes. In Egypt, his
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organization assassinated Anwar Sadat. Though acquitted himself, be was
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imprisoned three times during the 1980s. He finally left his homeland in
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1990. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled to Baghdad, where <span class="NORP">Egyptian</span>
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authorities believe he may have been involved in the planning of the
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unsuccessful assassination of <span class="NORP">Egyptian</span> Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa. </p>
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<p> Abdel Rahman later slipped into Pakistan, where he forged operational links
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with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of a radical rebel Afghan army backed by
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the CIA. Hekmatyar's career in politics began in 1972, when as an
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engineering student at Kabul University, he founded the Young Muslims,
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which advocated turning Afghanistan into a single-party Islamic republic
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based on the Sharia, or Islamic law. In June 1974, Hekmatyar fled to
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Pakistan after a government crackdown on Islamic fundamentalists. </p>
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<p> Hekmatyar immediately began to call for the armed overthrow of Afghanistan
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-- an idea that won the approval of Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
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who supplied Hekmatyar with arms, training, and money. Hekmatyar
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orchestrated an insurrection in Afghanistan in 1975, but it was crushed.
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Many of his followers subsequently joined him in Peshawar. </p>
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<p> By 1979, six fundamentalist Muslim Afghani rebel groups were operating in
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Peshawar. Hekmatyar's was by far the largest and most important, thanks
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to the support of his newest Pakistani patron, President Mohammed Zia. At
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the time, the Soviet-backed, Marxist government in Afghanistan was
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attempting to weaken the hold of the traditional religious elite, who for
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centuries had ruled the countryside. The Afghani Marxists even went so
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far as to remove the Islamic green from the Afghani flag. Hekmatyar
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resisted, waging a fierce terrorist war. In December 1979, the Soviets,
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fearing the violence would spill across their borders, invaded Afghanistan.
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Afghani president Hafizullah Amin was killed in the royal palace by Soviet
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troops, and replaced by Babrak Karmal, an exile who had been living in
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Moscow. </p>
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<p> Hekmatyar's relationship with Abdel Rahman began around the time of the
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Soviet invasion. Hekmatyar, who had only cursory religious training, drew
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his inspiration from the sheikh's attempts to overthrow Sadat and his call
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for a pure Islamic state, where women would be veiled and children would be
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scrupulously taught by mullahs. </p>
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<p> During Abdel Rahman's visit to Peshawar in 1990, the two charismatic
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leaders talked about spreading their holy war beyond the Muslim world into
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America, say several well-placed sources. But one of their most pressing
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concerns were the Islamic republics of the Soviet Union. As early as 1987,
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Hekmotyar's warriors were fighting Soviet troops in Soviet Tajikistan,
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according to the Washington Times. Meanwhile, the CIA spent lavishly on
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the Afghan rebels. In 1987 alone, the mujahedeen received $640 million --
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a sum matched by the Saudis. Additional funds were raised in the Gulf and
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among Abdel Rahman's American disciples. At the same time, the U.S. was
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building up the Iraqi war machine. When U.S. aid to the mujahedeen stopped
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in late December 1990 as part of an accord with Moscow, the ragtag army of
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Islamic fundamentalists turned its wrath on America. Around the same time,
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Iraq swallowed Kuwait, forcing America into the Gulf War. </p>
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<p> It is not surprising the U.S. government is attempting to cover up its
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relationship with Abdel Rahman. It may take a congressional investigation
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to unearth the extent of the sheikh's ties to U.S. intelligence. Last
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week's report in the Voice about CIA links to Abdel Rahman has "CIA
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officials running for cover," says a source close to the agency. </p>
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<p> Instead of ducking, the CIA should tell law enforcement what it knows about
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Abdel Rahman and his American followers. CIA files might shed light on the
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letter to The New York Times from the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion,
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which declared that the World Trade Center bombing was in retaliation for
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America's support for Israel and pro-Western Arab regimes. The letter
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threatened that the bombings would continue unless America suspended aid to
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Israel. Authorities told the Times that the letter was prepared by one of
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the five suspects in custody. </p>
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<p> Some terrorism experts fear that the World Trade Center bombing is the
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first round in radical Islam's war against America. They point to a wave
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of bombings in Paris in 1985 and 1986 that was masterminded by Tehran, and
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facilitated by Iranian students and small businessmen living in France.
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While the locals provided safehouses, bomb-making materials, and other
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logistical support, professional terrorists from abroad carried out the
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bombings and fled. The French government later struck a secret deal with
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the Khomeini regime. France took a more "neutral" position in the Iran-Iraq war and released several imprisoned Iranians. In return, the bombings
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stopped. * </p>
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