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       Of, "Ir,ade Center,: Others Reindicted
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                                        charged      
       By Jim McGeie-                   with:        
                                        involvement   
                                        in the       
                                        guilty,      
                                        has not      
                                        been         
                                                     

                                        bombing.     
       Washington Post                  Both men     
       Staff Writer                     remain       
                                        in custody.   
                                                     

       -------                          Salameh,     
       Federal prosecutors                  a handyman   
       in Manhattan                     from Jersey   
       yesterday re-                    City,        
                                        was arrested   
                                        March 4      
                                        after        
                                        investigators   
                                        found        
                                        part of      
                                        a van        
                                        at the       
                                                     

       leased a newindictment                  bomb scene   
       that 'names                      and traced   
       a new suspect                    it to        
       in                               a rental     
                                        outlet       
                                        in Jersey    
                                                     

       the Feb. 26                      City. Authorities   
       bombing of                       said Salameh   
       the World Trade                  rented       
       Center.                          the van      
                                        and then     
                                                     

       Reindicted in                    reported     
       the superseding                  it stolen    
       charge were                      several      
       Mohammed                         hours        
       -                                after        
                                        the bombing.   
                                                     

                                                     
       ameh, 25; NidalAY                  Ayyad,       
       yak 25, and                      4. chemical   
       Mahmud Abohahma,                  engineer     
       sal                              from Maplewoo   
       A                                -            
                                        4, NJ.,      
                                                     

       33. They were                    ,            
       charged with                     was arrested   
       a single count                   Marcb        
       of.causing                       10. after'FBI   
       the                              agents       
                                        searched     
                                        a            
                                                     

       bombing, which,                  rental       
       killed. six                      storage      
       people, injured                  shed allegedly   
       more than 1,000                  rented       
                                        by Salameh   
                                        'in New      
                                                     

       and demolished,                  Jersey       
       an underground                   and found    
       parking garage.                  chemicals    
       They                             that authorities   
                                        said can     
                                        be           
                                                     

       have pleaded                     mixed to     
       not guilty.                      create       
       and,remain                       a high       
       in custody.                      explosive.   
       -                                             
                                                     

       - R5-                            A halim      
       The R@@is, am-H                  was          
       AEm                              bo a arrested   
       edYousef 25                      after-he     
       who also                         was released   
       i                                by the       
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       was cited in                     @gyptian     
       the new indictm                  government.   
       uwo                              His lawyer   
       l                                has said     
       li~                              Abohalima    
       s                                             
       usef                                          
       ent.                                          
                                                     

       had resided                      cials and    
       at the same                      ques-        
       Jersey City,                     was torttrr6d   
       NJ., address                     by Itgyptian   
       once                             security     
                                        offi         
                                                     

       occupied by                      '            
       Salameh. He                      tioned       
       had not previously                  about        
       been iden-                       the bombing   
                                        for more     
                                        than a       
                                        week'        
                                        Since        
                                        '            
                                                     

       tified in the                    .to New      
       probe and was                    FBI agents   
       not in custody                   brought      
       last night.                      Abohalima    
       Au-                              back         
                                        York         
                                                     

       thorities told                   .            
       Reuter he is                     ,            
       -believed to                     March 24,    
       have fled,                       there        
       possibly                         has been     
                                        nopublic     
                                        disclosure   
                                        of the       
                                                     

       to Egypt. A                      evidence     
       warrant has                      implicating   
       been issued                      him in       
       for his -arrest.                  the bombing,   
                                                     

       The new indictment                  In response   
       did not name                     to questions   
       two other men                    about        
       who                              the contents   
                                        of a let-    
                                                     

       have been formally                  ter to       
       linked to the                    the New      
       bombing by                       York Times   
       federal                          purportedly   
                                        threatening   
                                                     

       officials. One                   further      
       informed official                  attacks,     
       said this was                    FBI Director   
       because of                       William      
                                        S. Sessions   
                                        told         
                                                     

       the volume of                    the Associated   
       work faced                       Press:       
       by prosecutors                   "We have     
       involved in                      no evidence   
       the                              that a       
                                                     

       investigation.                                
                                        large group   
       was arrested                     in the       
       last week on                     United       
       a federal                        States       
       Bilal AlkaLisi                   is preparing   
       26                               for a        
                                        wave         
                                                     

       ,                                of terrorist   
       ,                                attacks.     
       complaint that                   However,     
       'contained                       the magnitude   
       circumstantial                   of the       
       evidence of                                   
       his                                           
                                                     

                                        World Trade   
       A fifth -imn-                    Center       
       -Ibrahiffi                       attack       
       relatioAship                     naturally    
       with Ayyad                       heightens    
                                        the lev-     
                                                     

       .                                el of concern   
       ,                                and awareness   
       gabrowny, 42,                    for all      
       has been charged                  U.S. citizens.   
       with obstructing                  . .          
       a                                             
                                                     

       search of his                    Special      
       home in Brooklyn                  corresppndent   
       and possessing                   Rachel       
       five                             E. Stassen-Berger   
                                        in New       
                                                     

                                                  do his rebort.
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