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Pol wants WTC bomber moved
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Amid concerns over the possibility of anthrax-contaminated mail, a congressman has renewed his request that a blind Egyptian sheik linked to Osama bin Laden be moved out of a federal prison hospital in Rochester. Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., said Friday that he is again asking the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for plotting the 1993 truck-bomb attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Federal Medical Center officials declined to discuss the congressman's letter. However, associate warden Rick Veach said security has been tightened at the prison since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-10-27 |
