Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to 1993 World Trade Center attack, has died

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind firebrand Islamist cleric behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has died in federal prison, Fox News has learned. He was 78.

 

Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian radical who maintained a global following even while imprisoned for more than two decades, died Saturday morning at Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, where he was serving a life sentence.

 

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Abdel-Rahman died at approximately 5:40 a.m. Saturday of natural causes after a long health battle with diabetes and coronary artery disease.

 

His son Ammar told Reuters that his family had received a phone call from a U.S. representative saying his father had died.

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[Valin]

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