Omar Abdel-Rahman

Sheikh Omar AbdelRahman Arabic عمر عبد الرحمن ʾUmar ʾAbd arRaḥmān 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 AbdelRahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995 His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing AbdelRahman was the leader of AlJamaa alIslamiyya also known as The Islamic Group a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the Egyptian government The group was responsible for many acts of violence including the November 1997 Luxor massacre in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed The 911 Commission Report mentions his lectures as an inspiration for the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat Description above from the Wikipedia article Omar AbdelRahman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia