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Omar Abdel-Rahman
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03 May 1938
† 18 Feb 2017
Al Gamaliya, Egypt
Biography
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist and jihadist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 Worl...
Also Known As
عمر عبد الرحمن, ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān
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