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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993 T Metropolitan Washington (See Box on AQ 250
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Mideast Immigrant Linked to Salameh
                                  By Malcolm Gladwell
                                 and Jim McGee
Washington Po9t Staff Writtrs
FBI agents yesterday arrested
Nidal A. Ayyad of -Maplewood, NJ.,
in connection with- the bombing of
the World Trade Center in New
York and said the Kuwaiti-born
chemical engineer had close ties to
Mohammed A. Salameh, the Jersey
City man arrested last week in the
investigation.
Both are charged with aiding and
abetting in the underground explo-
sion Feb. 26 when five people were
killed and more than 1,000 injured.
In a complaint filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Newark, FBI officials
said Salameh had made repeated
telephone calls to Ayyad from out-
side a rented storage shed contain-
ing chemicals that officials said
could be used to fashion an explo-
sive device.
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- The complaint also said Salameh
had.,Ayyad's business card, that
Ayyad rented a red sedan believed
to have been driven to rent the van
known 'to have been used in the
bombing and that the two shared a
bank account.
Ayyad, 26, who immigrated from
Kuwait in 1985 and became a nat-
uralized citizen two years ago, isa
1991 chemical engineering grad-
uate of Rutgers University in New
Brunswick, NJ. He was employed
as a process engineer at AlliedSig-
nal Inc. in Morristown, NJ., author-
ities said. Bail is to be set at a hear-
ing in Newark Friday.
No further details were released
about -the extent of ties between
SaIameh, 25, and Ayyad or what
FBI officials believe Ayyad's role in
the bombing may have been. But
James Esposito, special agent in


charge of the FBI's Newark office,
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