World IN BRIEF : EGYPT : Mubarak Comment on Sheik Denied
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
President Hosni Mubarak’s spokesman denied that Mubarak had claimed that a radical Egyptian cleric whose followers are charged in the World Trade Center bombing is a paid CIA agent. The government newspaper Al Gomhouriya on Thursday had quoted Mubarak as saying that Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman works for the CIA. Mohammed Abdel Moneim, the president’s press secretary, said the story was erroneous. The newspaper printed a front-page retraction.
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