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INVESTIGATION
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
With a tale of a shoe stained
with sulfuric acid and some speculation about
frozen nitroglycerin, an F.B.I. forensic chemist
resumed his testimony in the World Trade Center
bombing trial yesterday. The chemist, Steven
Burmeister, was continuing testimony from last
week, in which he identified objects found in
various places associated with the defendants in
the case and told the jury the results of F.B.I.
laboratory analyses on them. Most of the objects
involved substances that can be used in the
manufacture of explosives.
January 25, 1994 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
EXPLOSIVES,
TRIALS,
TERRORISM,
AJAJ, MOHAMMAD AHMAD,
BURMEISTER, STEVEN,
AYYAD, NIDAL A,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A,
NEW YORK CITY
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Six weeks ago, prosecutors in
the World Trade Center trial brought out
testimony about a man who wore a checked
lumberjack shirt and was often seen using a pay
telephone at the corner of Pamrapo Avenue and
Old Bergen Road in Jersey City. Then that pay
phone was dropped, left dangling like an exposed
wire -- until yesterday when, in its typically
methodical fashion, the prosecutors attached it
to the overall case. The nearly forgotten
telephone came up as prosecutors questioned an
F.B.I. witness, Michael Patkus, who spent an
entire afternoon on the stand going over two
thick volumes of analyses of telephone calls
placed to and from addresses where the various
defendants in the case lived in the months when
the bomb attack was presumably being planned.
January 19, 1994 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
TRIALS,
TELEPHONES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS,
TERRORISM,
AJAJ, MOHAMMAD AHMAD,
PATKUS, MICHAEL,
AYYAD, NIDAL A,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A,
NEW YORK CITY
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
There was a heavy brown shirt
and a pair of faded jeans, some six-volt lantern
bulbs and an automobile tire; there were bottles
of acid, New York City subway maps, plastic
tubing, surgical masks, a telephone directory
and a booklet from the Spy Emporium titled
"Surveillance Transmitters and Receivers." The
prosecution in the World Trade Center case
yesterday continued the long and tedious task of
presenting the various pieces of evidence seized
during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
searches of apartments used by some of the
defendants in the bombing trial, and of a
storage locker where, the Government maintains,
the chemicals used to make the explosive were
kept.
January 12, 1994 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
TRIALS,
TERRORISM,
AJAJ, MOHAMMAD AHMAD,
AYYAD, NIDAL A,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A,
NEW YORK CITY
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
In the wake of the World
Trade Center bombing, F.B.I. agents mounted
searches of two apartments in Jersey City where
one suspect, Mohammed A. Salameh, lived at
different times in the months before the
explosion took place. Yesterday, as the trial of
Mr. Salameh and three other defendants accused
of the bombing entered its 17th week, agents
took the stand to show the jury what they found.
It was a diverse and sometimes puzzling haul of
evidence, the exact meaning of which might have
to await the lawyers' summations, when courtroom
procedure will allow the prosecutors to give
their theory as to how each piece of evidence
fits into the larger pattern.
January 11, 1994 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
TRIALS,
TERRORISM,
AJAJ, MOHAMMAD AHMAD,
AYYAD, NIDAL A,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A
By MARY B. W. TABOR
The New York F.B.I. chief,
who supervised the World Trade Center bombing
investigation, has been suspended from his
duties after Government lawyers complained that
he had talked about the bombing case during a
television interview. James M. Fox, the
assistant director in charge of the New York
office, was suspended on Dec. 10, less than a
month before his retirement, by F.B.I. director
Louis J. Freeh. The disciplinary action was for
comments on the Dec. 4 broadcast of "11 News
Close-Up" on New York television station WPIX,
F.B.I. officials said.
December 22, 1993 New
York and Region Biography
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
The prosecution in the World
Trade Center bombing trial played a tape
recording yesterday of a conversation between an
undercover F.B.I. agent and the lead defendant
in the case, Mohammed A. Salameh, that, Mr.
Salameh's defense lawyers are expected to argue,
indicates the innocence of their client. The
conversation took place on March 4 at a Ryder
rental agency in Jersey City, only minutes
before Mr. Salameh was arrested by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Several days earlier,
on Feb. 25, Mr. Salameh had rented a van from
the agency. This, investigators have testified,
was the yellow Ryder rental van whose twisted
pieces were found in the rubble of the Feb. 26
trade center explosion.
December 16, 1993 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
TRIALS,
TERRORISM,
WIRETAPPING AND OTHER EAVESDROPPING DEVICES
AND METHODS,
AYYAD, NIDAL,
AJAJ, AHMAD M,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A,
NEW YORK CITY
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
As a second bombing plot took
shape months after the blast at the World Trade
Center, nervous Federal agents agreed to slip a
timer for a new bomb back into the garage where
it was to be built, according to tape recordings
made by an informer. The informer, Emad A.
Salem, had insisted on procuring the timer so as
not to expose himself to the group of Muslim
extremists he had infiltrated. But in a
near-comic charade, F.B.I. agents stole the
device because they feared that it might end up
being used in an explosion, the transcripts
show.
November 8, 1993 New
York and Region News
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
The man accused of renting
the yellow Ryder van and collecting explosives
for bombing the World Trade Center was in Egypt
"on a mission" five months before the attack, a
Government informer told the F.B.I. shortly
after the bombing. The informer said that the
defendant, Mohammed A. Salameh, was detained by
Egyptian security forces investigating his links
to a radical Islamic preacher. The account from
the informer, Emad A. Salem, could not be
confirmed yesterday, although one investigator
said he was familiar with the information and
regarded it as significant.
November 2, 1993 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
TERRORISM,
SALEM, EMAD A,
AJAJ, AHMAD M,
AYYAD, NIDAL A,
ABOUHALIMA, MAHMUD,
SALAMEH, MOHAMMED A,
EGYPT,
NEW YORK CITY
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN WITH RALPH BLUMENTHAL
It is shortly after a bomb
has blown a hole five stories deep at the World
Trade Center and an F.B.I. agent is talking to
Emad A. Salem, the former Egyptian army officer
who is the bureau's secret source of
information, its most valuable undercover
operative. But rather than talk about the
conspiracy, about who was involved in it and how
it was done, Mr. Salem's concerns are more
mundane, involving unpaid parking tickets, the
tolls he pays as he travels between New York and
New Jersey, the expenses of using his own car to
carry out his informer's duties.
October 31, 1993 New
York and Region News
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation is reviewing the allegations of an
informer who said after the World Trade Center
explosion that he had warned law-enforcement
agents of a plot to build a bomb, and that if
they had worked with him, they would have
prevented the blast, officials said. But some
officials disputed important parts of the
informant's account yesterday, saying that
conversations with him took place half a year
before the attack on the trade center, and
months before the bomb was actually built.
October 29, 1993 New
York and Region News
MORE ON FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND:
WORLD TRADE CENTER (NYC),
BOMBS AND BOMB PLOTS,
INFORMERS,
TRIALS,
TERRORISM,
RENO, JANET,
SALEM, EMAD,
SCHUMER, CHARLES E
