‘Blind sheikh’ convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in US prison
- 18-Feb-2017
Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” convicted in US of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning more attacks as part of a “war of urban terrorism” in the United States, died on Saturday in a North Carolina prison, authorities said. Abdel-Rahman, 78, died of natural causes at 9:40 […]