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Home Front: WoT

US deports Sudanese convicted in 1996 of huge bomb plot

2019-10-19

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Sudanese national convicted of conspiring to blow up the UN and other New York landmarks has been deported from the United States after completing his sentence, officials said on Friday.

Amir Abdelghani, 59, was nabbed
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in 1996 for being part of a plot led by the late Egyptian holy man Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman that also planned to target FBI offices.

He was transferred to a detention center in July after serving most of his 30-year sentence and deported on October 12, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"This removal is a victory for the United States and further emphasizes ICEтs vital role in protecting our nation," Simona Flores-Lund, an ICE director in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

Abdelghani was among 10 people convicted of seditious conspiracy against the US and attempted bombings at the end of 1995 following a trial that lasted almost a year.

The attacks, thwarted in June 1993, were aimed at pressing the US to curb its support of Israel and the plotters also planned to blow up tunnels and bridges in Manhattan.

The men were not charged with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that left six dead and around 1,000 injured, but officials suspected they had links to it.

Abdel Rahman, nicknamed "The Blind Sheikh," was the leader of Egyptian holy warrior group Jamaa Islamiya

...тthe Islamic Groupт, whose name is also translated as al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, El Gama'a El Islamiyya, Gamaat Islamiya, al Jamaat al Islamiya, etc. They split off from the Moslem Brotherhood back in the 1970s when that lot formally gave up volence. In the old days they were linked to Al Qaeda and funded by the governments of Iran and Sudan. In 2011 they went in for politics...

. He died in a US federal prison in 2017.

The Daily Caller has more details.

Posted by:Fred