U.N. Bombing Plotter Sentenced

A Sudanese immigrant who implicated militant Muslim Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman in a scheme to bomb the United Nations and kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced in New York to 11 years in prison. Siddig Ibrihim Siddig Ali, 38, a former aide to the cleric, pleaded guilty in February 1995 for his role in the scheme. His cooperation with authorities helped prosecutors win the conviction of the cleric and nine others for conspiring to blow up U.S. landmarks and kill political and religious leaders. Abdel Rahman is now serving a life prison term. Prosecutors said the defendants conspired to “wage a war of urban terrorism” in the United States aimed at forcing it to abandon its support for Israel.