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About Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, , 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 World Trade Center bombing.
Everything about Omar Abdel-Rahman →- Occupation
- theologian, politician
- Citizenship
- Egypt
- Born
- May 3, 1938
- Died
- February 18, 2017