Acting
Omar Abdel-Rahman
- Born
- May 3, 1938 · Aged 78
- Died
- Feb 18, 2017
- Place of birth
- Al Gamaliya, Egypt
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 0
- TV credits
- 2
Also known as (2)
- عمر عبد الرحمن
- ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān
Biography
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 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. Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The…