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  1. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ( Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن ), ( ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as " The Blind Sheikh ", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States.

  2. May 7, 2024 · Omar Abdel Rahman was an Egyptian-born cleric who served as the spiritual leader of al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmiyyah (Arabic: “the Islamic Group”), one of Egypt’s largest and most active militant organizations in the late 20th century.

  3. Feb 19, 2017 · (Reuters) - Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim cleric known as "the blind sheikh" who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a broader "war of urban...

  4. Feb 18, 2017 · Omar Abdel-Rahman, the extremist Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has died aged 78.

  5. Feb 18, 2017 · Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York City in the decade before 9/11 and spiritual guide to a generation of Islamic militants, has died...

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  6. Feb 18, 2017 · Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, died Saturday in a federal prison where he was serving a life sentence. He...

  7. Feb 18, 2017 · Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born “blind sheikh” and spiritual leader who was convicted in 1995 of being a mastermind of terrorist plots against the United States, and who was called the...

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