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Omar Abdel-Rahman

Leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya

  • Fame53.3
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia10.6K
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Lived 1938–2017, aged 79Egypt
EgyptEgyptAcademicsAcademic
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    21 languages
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  • Era
    1938–2017
    Aged 79
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Updated 2026-07-21

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.

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