NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Monday, October 2,1995 5A U.S. convicts conspirators The Associated Press NEW YORK - A federal jury yesterday convicted 10 Muslim radicals, including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, of conspiring to bomb the United Nations, a bridge and tunnels to frighten the United States into changing its Middle East policies. The jury also convicted one of the defendants, El Sayyid Nosair, in the 1990 killing of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, an assassination once described as an isolated attack by a crazed gunman but later as the opening blow in a war of urban terrorism. The jurors, who had deliberated for a week, looked tired as their verdict was read. Most of the defendants looked on sternly. But one smirked and another repeatedly yelled in Arabic, "Allahu Akbar!" or "God is great! after jurors had left the room Abdel-Rahman kept his head bowed, as he had throughout the trial while he listened to an interpreter through headphones. His attorney, Lynne Stewart, cried. Afterward, she told reporters that the blind cleric said he was not the first person to go to prison for his beliefs, and he wouldn't be the last. Lawyers for the defendants said all of them would appeal. Stewart said the sheik would be moved quickly to a prison hospital out of concern for his health problems, which include diabetes and heart trouble. Besides seditious conspiracy, the defendants faced various lesser charges. Nosair and Ibrahim El-Gabrowny each were found not guilty of a direct role in the plot to bomb New York City landmarks but were convicted of the broader seditious conspiracy charge. The sheik and Nosair face life in prison when they are sentenced in January; the rest face 20 to 30 years. The verdict concluded a ninemonth trial featuring more than 200 witnesses and hundreds of exhibits in a heavily guarded Manhattan courthouse patrolled daily by a bomb-sniffing dog. Facing a rarely used Civil War-era seditionous conspiracy charge, the defendants were accused of plotting bombings and killings to make the United States stop supporting Israel and Egypt, two enemies of militant Muslims. The centerpiece of the plot featured five bombs in 10 minutes, meant to blow up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI, according to the government. Videootapes showed defendants mixing bomb ingredients in a Queens garage just before their 1993 arrests. Members of the Jihad Organization allegedly sought to bring a global holy war to the United States by bombing the trade center. "Terrorism is real. It is here. It is in this courtroom," Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told the jury. Earthquake pounds Turkey The Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 shook western Turkey yesterday, killing at least 14 people and leaving dozens more believed buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Public Works Minister Halil Culhaoglu said the death toll could reach 100. Two-thirds of the buildings collapsed in Dinar, a city of 100,000 people near the quake's epicenter, said Semih Koken, an editor for a local TV station. "I hear cries of help from under the rubble," said Anatolia reporter Zafer Caglar. "The town is caught with panic." The semi-official Anatolia news agency reported 14 people were killed, and at least 193 were injured. Rescue teams were trying to clear the rubble with heavy machines. Another, less powerful quake shook Dinar on Wednesday, damaging dozens of homes. Aftershocks continued the next few days, and many residents slept outdoors, for fear of a major quake. Yesterday's quake "felt very strong and lasted at least 30 seconds," Koken said on the private Star TV network. Electricity and phone service to much of Dinar was disrupted, making it difficult to obtain further details. Dinar is about 200 miles southwest of Ankara. The police station and local government building were among those damaged, the news agency said. It also reported damage in the neighboring towns of Evciler and Kiziloren. The Turkish Red Crescent, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross, dispatched the first aid convoy with 500 tents and 2,500 blankets to Dinar from the capital Ankara. Yesterday's quake hit at 5:57 p.m. An aftershock measuring about 4.7 hit Dinar at 8:03 p.m., said Ahmet Isikara, a representative for Istanbul's Kandilli Observatory. The last major quake in Turkey occurred in 1992 and had a magnitude of 6.8. It killed more than 800 people and left 180,000 homeless. 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