5TH SUSPECT ARRESTED IN BOMBING (WASHINGTON POST)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R003900260009-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 26, 1993
• Content Type: NSPR

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suspect and discl . lMt" ' new courtroom on c ar es of causing Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Evidence ag n t a circle of Middle
Eastern immigrants from the New Esposito's counterpart in New structing the ,search of his resi-
York-New Jersey area. York, FBI Assistant Director Jim dence and possessing fraudulent
Today's developments began Fox, cautioned that it, may be passports, but the U.S. Attorney's
shortly after midnight, when 'FBI onths before the investigation is office has publicly connected him
agents in Newark placed 1-'Complete in the case, which defense with the bombing indictment. "Not
i 27 , under arrest after sev- attorneys are quick to note is guilty," said Elgabrowny.
era ours f questioning. Later in based-so far as is publicly under- According to the indictment un-
the day he was formally charged. stood-on evidence that is largely sealed today, the grand jury
with "aiding and abetting" the circumstantial. "The investigation is 'charged Salameh, Ayyad and Ma-
bombing, which killed six persons, continuing on a large scale," Fox hmud Abouhalima, an Egyptian
injured more than 1,000 and crip- said at the news conference. flown here from his homeland on
pled one of the world's largest of- Each of the five suspects now in Wednesday, with causing the bomb.
flee complexes. custody appeared in federal court ing of the trade center.
Abouhalima "was beaten, he was
When FBI agents arrested Nidal on separate charges related to the tortured," during 10 days of con-
A. Ayyad, a chemical engineer im bombing, but a federal prosecutor finement in Egypt, his defense at.
plicated in the case, on March 10, said in court that some of the de- torney, Jesse . Berman, told the.
press was card in carrying the an name of Ex- fendants can expect to be .re-in- court. In the hallway after the hear.
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American Express records listed comprehensive set of charges. Such Abouhalima claimed that his inter
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Ayyad's ess residence as the billing ad- a . _rogators.in Egypt tortured him'with
. istep,ctment, known might as a define in superseding in greater
dress for the card, the federal com- d cigarette burns to his genitals and
detail the legal underpinnings of the
plaint said.
demanded that he confess to in _
government's case.
A search of Ayyad's residence
volvement in the bombing.
"I ... am ... not ... guilty,"
the same day turned up a "timing
A spokesman -for Egypt's Interio
said Mohammed A. Salameh, his
mechanism which had been mod-
Ministry said today he did not kno
loud vic rlg above the din of
ified .. . . as a time-delay firing sys-
"anything about" the charges
the courtroom. Salameh, the first
tem, consistent with timing mech-
Washington Post corresponden
arrested in connection with the
in other terrorist
anism used Caryle Murphy reported from Ca'
bombing, rented a van that the FBI
bombs" according to the complaint.
ro. "Telephone again after tomor-
alleges was used to carry the explo
In related court proceedings to-
row," he said.
slues.
day, Ayyad and three other sus- . Alkaisi was brought before
Moments later, drys ad, who is
pects pleaded not guilty to charges magistrate, but did not enter a plea
implicated in the case a a result of
-involving the Feb. 26 explosion in The federal complaint said that a
his dealings with Salameh, stood up
the trade center's underground least one witness saw Alkaisi wi
and gave a prepared statement: "I
parking garage. Salameh before the bombing, at
swear by all I hold dear-the
- While they are optimistic after storage shed in New Jersey whet
Koran, my wife, my children, my
five arrests within a month after the agents discovered a cache ofche
mother-I am not guilty," he said.
bombing, senior officials said they icals that can be used to create e'
"I had nothing to. do with this."
are still unsure about the motive. plosives:
Minutes later, Ibrahim A. El-
"The circle is g Qw During questioning at the N
now very narrow in
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wark FBI office," Alkaisi "statedr
terms of the individuals we are still same courtroom, where . he was
seeking who we believe are respon- greeted with a bear hug from Wil-. : substance and in-part that he,
sible for this bombing," said Jim Es Liam N. Kunstler, his defense attor- not know Salameh_well and only
posito, special agent in charge of ney, known for. his representation of contact with him throughh;
t otive or tftisSb~oinbing 1 un- 2CM a 16P e itbo*l O ~-laI
clear," Elgabrowny is charged with ob- shed.
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