
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 1, 1993                   TAG: 9307010343
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA                                LENGTH: Short

9TH TERROR SUSPECT CHARGED

A ninth man was arrested Wednesday in the plot to bomb the United Nations and other sites in New York City. A federal complaint said the man met with the plot's ringleader to discuss obtaining explosives.

Earl Gant, 27, of Philadelphia, was charged with conspiracy to transport explosives in interstate commerce, according to the complaint released by the FBI. He faces a hearing today in Philadelphia.

Officials were searching Gant's home Wednesday evening.

Eight others, five of them Sudanese Muslims, were arrested June 24 and charged with conspiracy to bomb U.N. headquarters, the building that houses New York's FBI office and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels linking Manhattan and New Jersey. They were being held without bail.

by CNB