GERMAN POLICE JOIN TRADE CENTER PROBE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 13, 1993                   TAG: 9303130043
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short
GERMAN POLICE JOIN TRADE CENTER PROBE
German police agreed Friday to help U.S. investigators follow a trail of money that was transferred from Dusseldorf to a New Jersey bank account shared by two suspects in the World Trade Center bombing.
Also Friday, a U.S. magistrate in Newark, N.J., denied bail for the second suspect arrested in the bombing.
Magistrate Dennis Cavanaugh said releasing Nidal A. Ayyad on bail would pose a danger because the 25-year-old Palestinian-American chemical engineer could communicate with others who may have been involved, but not yet arrested.
Although the FBI thinks the money from Germany financed the attack, the original source of the funds and the motive for the bombing itself remain unclear. But investigators said they were making progress.
"We are in the right arena. We are in the right section. We've come down the right aisle and are in the right row," said James Esposito, head of the FBI's office in Newark. "And now we have to finish identifying who sat in that row."
A spokesman for the German federal police, Thomas Rindsfuesser, said investigators would ask the Westdeutsche Genossenschafts Zentralbank in Dusseldorf about the transfer.
Henning Rautenberg, a bank spokesman, said $2,420.87 was transferred from his institution to a bank account in New Jersey held by the bombing suspects, Mohammed Salameh and Nidal Ayyad.
Rautenberg said his bank wired the money at the request of one of 500 member banks that belong to a cooperative banking system. Citing bank-secrecy laws, he declined to identify the member bank or say who provided the money.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB