“In early May 1990, [future World Trade Center bombing conspirator] Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman’s representatives walked into the U.S. embassy…in Khartoum [Sudan] and sought an entry visa for him to the United States. Sheikh Rahman, at the behest of the Egyptian authorities, had been on a terrorist watch list for his role in the assassination of [President] Anwar es-Sadat and his involvement with the al-Jihad movement since 1987. On May 10, 1990, Rahman was granted a one-year visa to enter the United States.”
– Samuel M. Katz, Relentless Pursuit, Page 53