ning to pull out, was exten-
sively used in a highly
successful bout of fund-rais-
ing activities in American
Muslim communities.
Some of the money was
used to help Muslims immi-
grate, but much more was
used to set up a series of front
companies, including a real
estate firm, a supermarket, a
restaurant, a drug store and
a furniture store.
In addition, a karate school
was established at the
mosque to recruit potential
young Islamic activists, while
Mr. Shalabi also bought a
farm in New Jersey where a
large number of recruits re-
ceived military training, os-
tensibly for use in
Afghanistan.
Many were reportedly sent
to Afghanistan, the staging
post for mujahedin attacks on
Soviet forces, but few saw ac-
tion there. Instead, they were
re-routed to various Middle
Eastern and North African
countries which had been tar-
geted for Islamic subversion.
Mr. Shalabi, who had a
tempestuous relationship
with the Farouk Mosque's
Palestinian spiritual leader,
Sheikh Fawaz Dummar, was
2
eventually forced to leave
when mosque board members
discovered that he had set up
a printing press in the base-
ment to produce counterfeit
dollar notes.
It is not known whether
\, the press was ever used or
where it is today, but shortly
after it was removed from the
mosque in 1991, Mr. Shalabi
was shot to death — appar-
ently because of financial ir-
regularities, including
\_, embezzlement, said the pa-
/-' per.
Sheikh Dummar was re-
portedly fired after Abdel-
) Rahman arrived in the
United States
According to a senior Mid-
dle East source, there are
\-' clear links between Iran,
which perceives the concept
of "jihad" as an immediate
imperative rather than a
prophetic mission, and major
Middle Eastern fundamen-
talist groups that have es-
tablished bases in the United
States.
These movements include
Egypt's Islamic Jihad and
Gamaa al-Islamiya, Algeria's
Islamic Salvation Front,
Tunisia's an-Nandha, Su-
dan's National Islamic Front
and the two Palestinian
groups, Hamas and Islamic
Jihad for Palestine. The
source said that the bombing
of the World Trade Center in
New York has heightened
tension between the main-
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