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Relatives and friends of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman carry his coffin after funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Nile Delta town of Gamaleya, Egypt, on Feb. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Mostafa Albasuni)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 23, 2017 | Middle East
El-Gamaleya – Memories ruled the eulogies of relatives and supporters of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman as he was laid to rest in his hometown in el-Gamaleya, Egypt. The sheikh was serving a life sentence in the U.S. for conspiring in the 1993 New York bombings and hadn’t...
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Sheikh Abdul Rahman © Reuters
by Mohamed Shafei | Feb 19, 2017 | Middle East
London – Omar Abdul Rahman, spiritual leader of Gamaa Islamiya, died in his prison in the United States, sources confirmed. Kenneth McKoy of the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., said Abdul Rahman died at 5:40 a.m. He suffered from diabetes and coronary...
