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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41826)	11/30/2001 4:18:55 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, 28, is a recruiter for al Qaeda, but he is also part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle and probably possesses a lot of inside information about the inner workings of the terrorist network. That's one of the reasons American investigators would like to talk to him. The public learned of the arrest only after his family in Cairo recognized Rahman, who also goes by the name Seif Allah — Sword of Allah — when footage of his capture broadcast on television. His father, the infamous blind Egyptian cleric, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is said to have inspired the men who carried out the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He was later convicted of plotting to blow up New York landmarks, bridges and tunnels. He is serving a life sentence in a high-security federal prison in Minnesota. His son, Ahmed, lived in Egypt until he and his father were expelled. Ahmed then lived in Sudan and then Yemen until Yemen came under pressure to get rid of him in the late '90s. After that, he moved to Afghanistan and became a fixture in bin Laden's al Qaeda camps as a recruiter of younger members and a symbol of his father's holy war along, with one of his brothers Mohammad.