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Sheikh loses

Friday 09 July 1993 23:02 BST
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A US immigration panel yesterday upheld a deportation order against Sheikh Omar Abdel- Rahman, the blind fundamentalist Egyptian cleric whose followers have been charged in two New York bombing conspiracies.

He is being held at a federal correctional centre pending a decision by immigration officials on whether to deport him.

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