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Approved For Release 2003/01/17 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900240006-8 shington Post Sections A News/Editorials B Metro/Obituaries C Style/Television D Sports/Business Inside: The Weekly, Classified, Comics, Washington Home Today's Contents: Page A2 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993 T Prices May Vary in Areas Outside Metropolitan Washington (See Box on A4) 25¢ O PUBLI CCE REUTER saraed with aiding and abetting World Trade Center bombing. Chemical Engineer Held in N.Y. Blast Mideast Immigrant Linked to Salameh By Malcolm Gladwell and Jim McGee Washington Post Staff Writers FBI agents yesterday arrested Nidal A. Ayyad of Maplewood, N.J., in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and said the Kuwaiti-born chemical engineer had close ties to Mohammed A. Salameh, the Jersey City man arrested last week in the investigation. Both are charged with aiding and abetting in the underground explo- sion Feb. 26 when five people were killed and more than 1,000 injured. In a complaint filed in U.S. Dis- trict Court in Newark, FBI officials said Salameh had made repeated telephone calls to Ayyad from out- side a rented storage shed contain- ing chemicals that officials said could be used to fashion an explo- sive device. The complaint also said Salameh had Ayyad's business card, that Ayyad rented a red sedan believed to have been driven to rent the van known to have been used in the bombing and that the two shared a bank account. Ayyad, 26, who immigrated from Kuwait in 1985 and became a nat- uralized citizen two years ago, is a 1991 chemical engineering grad- uate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He was employed as a process engineer at AlliedSig- nal Inc. in Morristown, N.J., author- ities said. Bail is to be set at a hear- ing in Newark Friday. No further details were released about the extent of ties between Salameh, 25, and Ayyad or what FBI officials believe Ayyad's role in the bombing may have been. But James Esposito, special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark office, See NEW YORK, A4, Col. 3 10 70628 21100 Post Company 3 Approved For Release 2003/01/17 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900240006-8 .