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By Jim McGee'
Washington Post Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan yesterday re-
leased a new indictment that, names a new suspect in
the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Reindicted in the superseding charge were Mohammed
t,Salameh, 25; Nidal A)Vyid, 25, and Mahmud Abohalima
33. They were &arge4 with a single count of causing the
bombing, which-killed.six people, injured more than 1,000
and demolished an underground parking garage- They
have pleaded not' guilty., and remain, in custody.
The @--_ed Yousef, 25, who also
was cited in the new indic,tmen:t""-A~'d'Itbo-oMn-h--~e6',§~-i~id-Yousef
had resided at the 'same Jersey City, NJ., address once
occupied by Salameh. He had not previously been iden-
tified in the probe and was not in custody last night. Au-
thorities told Reuter he is-believed to have fled, possibly
to Egypt A warrant has been issued for his -arrest.
The new indictment did not name two other men who
have been formally linked to the bombing by federal
officials. One informed official said this was because of
the volume of work faced by prosecutors involved in the
investigation.
Bilal AIkajsjj-.26j was arrested last week on a federal
complaint that contained circumstantial evidence of his
relationship with Ayyad. A fifth -man' --lbralff
gabrowny, 42., has been charged with obstructing a
guilty, has not been charged with -involvement in the
bombing. Both men remain in custody.
Salameh, a handyman from Jersey City, was arrested
March 4 after investigators found part of a van at the
bomb scene and traced.it to a rental outlet in Jersey
City. Authorities said Salameh rented the van and then
teported it stolen several hours after the bombing.
Ayyad, a@ chemical engineer from Maplewood, N.J.,
was arrested Marcb 10.-after'FBI-;age&i s"ea".r6hed a
rental storage shed allegedly rented by Salameh in New
Jersey and found cheadcals that authorities said can be
mixed to create a high.explosive.
Abohalinia was arre;sted aftpr-he was released by the
Egyptian government- Ifis la-wier has said Abolialima.
vias tortur6d'by -Ekyptian security officials and ques-
tioned about the bombing for more than, a week'. Since
FBI agents brought Abohalima- back to New, York
March 24, there has been no public disclosure of the
evidence implicating him in the bombing.
In response to questions about the contents of a let-
ter to the New York Times purportedly threatening
further attacks, FBI Director William S. Sessions told
the Associated Press. "We hive no evidence that a
large group in the United States is preparing for a wave
of terrorist attacks. However, the.magnitude of-the
World Trade Center attack naturally heightens the lev-
el of concern and awareness for all U.S. citizens. . .
search of his home in Brooklyn and possessing five Special correspondent Rachel E. Stwen-Berger in New
fraudulent passports. Elgabrowny, who has pleaded not York contributed to this report
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