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<text id=93TT1366>
<title>
Apr. 05, 1993: From Egypt, with Intense Suspicion
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 14
NATION
From Egypt, with Intense Suspicion
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<p>A suspect in the World Trade Center bombing is flown back to
the U.S.
</p>
<p> The Egyptian government knew it was going to face charges
that it is in Uncle Sam's pocket. So it tried to pretend that
Mahmud Abohalima asked voluntarily to go back to the U.S. In fact
he was arrested by Egyptian security forces in a town near
Alexandria and flown back last Wednesday to the U.S., which he
had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing.
A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport
to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and
abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area
taxi driver, pleaded not guilty; his attorney charged that he
had been tortured for 10 days by Egyptian authorities.
Abohalima, said the lawyer, had been hung "like a shish kebab."
</p>
<p> Another suspect, Bilal Alkaisi, surrendered voluntarily in
Newark, New Jersey, and was held for a bail hearing this week.
That brings to five the number in custody and may be close to
completing a roundup; authorities are believed to be looking for
only one other suspect. But it scarcely completes the
investigation. Abohalima and two of the other suspects have been
arraigned only on general aiding and abetting charges (like
another suspect accused of obstructing justice, they have all
asserted innocence). Authorities have yet to spell out any
theory of who did what: Who actually made the bomb; who drove
the van containing it into the trade center? Abohalima has been
described in some press reports as the mastermind, but some
authorities view him as a bombmaking "consultant." Debate rages
too about the motive and whether the bombers were directed by
foreign terrorists or were just a bunch of free-lance zealots.
</p>
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</article>
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