Blind Sheikh Buried In Egypt After Dying In US Jail

Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday in Cairo for the funeral of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who died in a US jail. The Egyptian-born sheikh died of natural causes Saturday at the age of 78 at a federal medical centre in North Carolina, where he was … Read more

New York Bomb Plot Mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman Dies In Prison

The mastermind of numerous bomb plots in New York in the early 1990s has died in prison in the US, his family says. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who preached at mosques in New York, was sentenced to life in 1996 for planning the attacks. He plotted to attack multiple landmarks in New … Read more