Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن, Umar 'Abdu r-Raḥman; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner in Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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Omar Abdel Rahman 3 May 1938 Al Gammaliyyah, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt
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Died |
18 February 2017 (aged 78) Butner, North Carolina USA
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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