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Threat to cleric

Thursday 21 January 1993 00:02 GMT
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NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (Reuter) - A Muslim cleric linked to a group trying to overthrow the Egyptian government faces a deportation hearing. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual head of the revolutionary group el- Islamiya, was to appear before an immigration judge on the ground that he lied on his residence application in 1991.

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