
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, August 5, 1993                   TAG: 9308050244
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

EX-INFORMANT INDICTED IN TRADE CENTER BLAST

A man who left the country after cooperating extensively with FBI agents investigating the World Trade Center bombing was indicted Wednesday as a co-conspirator in the plot, charged with helping mix the chemicals were used in the blast.

Prosecutors added the name of Abdul Rahman Yasin to the list of suspects charged in the Feb. 26 bombing.

Yasin, a 33-year-old American-born man of Iraqi background, flew to Amman, Jordan, exactly one week after the bombing, the new indictment charges. Law enforcement officials said they believe he is in Baghdad.

Previously classified as an "informant" in court papers, Yasin had told FBI agents that he taught bombing suspect Mohammad Salameh how to drive. Salameh has been charged with driving the Ryder rental van that carried the bomb into a World Trade Center garage.

In the new indictment, Yasin is charged with meeting Salameh and fugitive suspect Ramzi Ahmed Yousef in a Jersey City, N.J., apartment in the weeks before the blast and mixing "chemicals to produce explosive materials." Sources say those chemicals were used in the bombing. Investigators found chemical residue spattered on the walls of the apartment.

- Newsday

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