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	Omar Abdel-Rahman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rahman is the leader of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as The Islamic Group), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Egyptian governments.
		Rahman was born in Egypt in 1938 and lost his eyesight at a young age due to childhood diabetes.
		Rahman spent three years in Egyptian jails where he was severely tortured as he awaited trial on charges of issuing a fatwa resulting in the 1982 assassination of Anwar Sadat by Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omar_Abdel_Rahman (901 words)

	Omar Abdel-Rahman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Rahman spent three brutal stints in Egyptian jails for endorsing the deaths of General Nasser and President Anwar Sadat, the latter of whom was assassinated by members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in 1982.
		With the assistance of an informant wearing a listening device, the FBI managed to record Rahman issuing a (A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority) fatwa to bomb US military targets.
		As the investigation progressed into the second half of 1993, evidence indicating that Rahman was at the centre of a terrorist cell responsible for numerous acts of violence began to mount.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/om/omar_abdel-rahman1.htm (449 words)

	Encyclopedia: Omar Abdel-Rahman
		Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado.
		Formerly a resident of New York City, Rahman and nine others were convicted on October 1, 1995 of conspiring to bomb New York landmarks including the United Nations and FBI offices.
		Rahman is the spiritual leader of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as The Islamic Group), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Egyptian governments.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Omar-Abdel_Rahman (2291 words)

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		Omar Abdel Rahman was not only cared for by 6 the medical professionals who worked at the Rochester facility, 7 but he was also cared for by doctors from the Mayo Clinic, one 8 of the finest medical institutions in this world.
		The goal, the purpose for 14 passing these messages back and forth was initially to get 15 Abdel Rahman to side with them, to work with Sattar and Taha in 16 their conspiracy to kill and in their solicitation of crimes of 17 violence.
		Abdel Rahman is 5 saying, no, we're not going to end our dispute with the 6 Egyptian government politically, peacefully by sitting down and 7 working out differences.
	www.lynnestewart.org /transcripts/122904.txt (17426 words)

	MPR: Sheikh's presence in Rochester worries some
		Rahman, 63, is serving a life sentence for conspiracy in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993.
		Abdel Rahman resides at Rochester's Federal Medical Center because he is blind and diabetic.
		Ahmed Abdel Rahman is now being interrogated by U.S. personnel on the assumption that he is a high-ranking member of the al-Qaeda organization.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200112/14_schmitzr_sheikh-m/index.shtml (1196 words)

	Station Information - Omar Abdel-Rahman
		Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman was a blind Egyptian cleric that lived in New York City.
		Rahman and nine others were convicted on October 1st, 1995 in New York.
		They were convicted of conspiring to bomb New York landmarks including the United Nations and FBI offices.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/o/om/omar_abdel_rahman.html (82 words)

	US indicts Sheik Rahman's lawyer, escalating government attack on democratic rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Strangely, Abdel Rahman himself, the alleged font of all this alleged criminal activity, is not being charged with a crime.
		Earlier this year, she announced that she would represent Abdel Rahman’s son Ahmed, who was captured in Afghanistan in November and accused of being a liaison between the Islamic Group and Al Qaeda.
		The government alleges that she conspired to make a public statement that Abdel Rahman was being denied medical treatment for his diabetes, when she supposedly knew that he was refusing insulin.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/stew-a11.shtml (1791 words)

	Inside Al-Qaeda: a window into the world of militant Islam and the Afghani alumni - Jane's International Security News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Egyptian-born Sheih Omar Abdel Rahman is currently serving a life sentence in a Minnesota prison after being convicted of conspiring with a group of his followers to destroy the World Trade Center and New York City bridges and tunnels in 1993.
		Abdel Rahman's son, Abdullah, says there are both similarities and differences between Bin Laden and his father, the blind imam of Muslim guerrillas.
		Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman continues to be revered by radical Muslims around the world who view him as their spiritual leader.
	www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/misc/janes010928_1_n.shtml (2998 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's acquiescence to the project and vocal support for certain aspects of the idea was enough to convict him as well.
		In conversations recorded by Emad himself, and submitted as evidence at the trial, Emad refers to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman as "the one who does not see." President Mubarak of Egypt is "the chairman of the board of directors..." or "the laughing cow" (this is a reference to a common Egyptian joke.
		When Emad tells his Egyptian contacts that Rahman is holding a press conference and has clear photographs showing that Egyptian intelligence used cigarettes to burn the genitals of World Trace Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, the Egyptian contact seems audibly perturbed, especially at the news that human rights groups, journalists and even CNN may be present.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/arabia/Sheik%20Omar.html (2940 words)

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		Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Muslim cleric whose involvement with terrorism goes back at least as far as the October 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, whom he did not consider an authentic Muslim (and whose killing he therefore deemed justified) because of Sadat's signing of a 1979 peace agreement with Israel.
		Abdel-Rahman, who is considered the spiritual leader and role model of Osama Bin Laden and his associates, was at that time also the spiritual leader of a Jama'at al-Jihad terrorist cell, and gave his order for Sadat's assassination by issuing a fatwa.
		(Rahman is prolific at issuing fatwas, such as the one which sanctions the robbing and killing of Christians if they are believed to be in any way anti-Muslim).
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1685 (839 words)

	‘Sept.11 has done nothing but harm to Islam’ - NW-0702WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		July 1 issue - The blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman is serving a life sentence in the United States for his conviction in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
		His son, Sheik Abdullah Abdel Rahman, who lives in Egypt, insists his father is innocent and argues that the place for legitimate jihad is only “in the countries where Muslims have been attacked.” At 27, Rahman has studied at Al Azhar university, the ancient center of Islamic scholarship, for more than 10 years.
		Omar Abdel Rahman is a peaceful man. The big difference is between someone who calls for the truth and someone who calls for violence or destruction—that absolutely contradicts what the Sharia calls for.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3067178 (932 words)

	The New American - Enemies and "Assets" - March 3, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Sheik Omar and his followers were arrested in June 1993, six months after the Trade Center bombing; at the time of the arrest, some of the plotters were literally mixing chemicals to manufacture bombs.
		Sheik Omar, who was accused of complicity in the plot to assassinate Anwar Sadat, has devoted his adult life to the overthrow of the secular Egyptian government and the propagation of his variety of Islam.
		On May 10, 1990, Sheik Omar was granted a one-year visa from a CIA agent posing as an official at the U.S. Consulate in Khartoum, Sudan, and he arrived in New York in July 1990.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1997/vo13no05/vo13no05_assets.htm (2755 words)

	Coastal Post Article - A Political Prisoner In the U.S.: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman
		Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a Ph.D. from Al-Azher University, was denouncing the plundering of Muslim lands in Palestine, as well as President Mubarak's treachery in cooperating with Israel and the U.S. to support repression of both the Palestinian and his own people.
		Sheik Rahman had been jailed by Mubarak for his preachings in the early 1980s, released in 1984 only to be imprisoned again in 1985, 1986 and 1989.
		Sheik Rahman was then denied the lawyer of his choice by Judge Mukasey, and when he then asked the court to permit an expert to explain the practices of Islam to an ignorant American jury, he was refused this due process.
	www.coastalpost.com /97/3/16.htm (1335 words)

	4 Charged With Helping 'Blind Sheik' Commit Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Abdel Rahman has been serving a life sentence since 1995 for various acts of terror.
		Lynne Stewart, who was Abdel Rahman's attorney during his 1995 trial and conviction for the World Trade Center bombing and has continued to act as one of his attorneys since he has been in prison.
		Ashcroft said Abdel Rahman had been one of the principal leaders of Islamic Group since the early 1990s, "and has directed its terrorist operations, defined its goals and recruited its membership in the United States.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/4/9/142954.shtml (1204 words)

	Report: Afghan raids kill son of U.S.-jailed cleric (Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman of 1993 WTC attack) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted Islamist sources in London as saying Assad Abdel Rahman, 29, son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, died in the same raid as killed Mohammed Atef or Abu Hafs al-Masri, a close aide to Osama bin Laden and suspected planner of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
		A wife of Sheikh Omar had written to US President George W. Bush and the Taliban leadership to "urge them to agree to such an exchange" because of her husband's poor health, the Sheikh's son Abdullah said.
		Sheikh Omar was sentenced to life in prison in Jan 1996 in New York for the deadly bombing of the World Trade Center, while the eight foreigners were arrested recently in Afghanistan on charges of preaching Christianity.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/573319/posts (3049 words)

	USATODAY.com - Cross-examination of lawyer in terror trial begins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		NEW YORK (AP) — A civil rights lawyer, challenged for the first time on the witness stand by a prosecutor Wednesday, insisted she did not pass messages from an imprisoned terrorist to his followers by putting his opinions in a press release.
		She was the blind Egyptian sheik's lawyer in 1995, when he was convicted of seditious conspiracy in a plot to blow up New York landmarks including the United Nations, two tunnels and a bridge.
		Stewart has said she wanted to keep the sheik's name prominent in Egypt to aid efforts to convince U.S. and Egyptian authorities to permit him to eventually be transferred to Egyptian prisons.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-11-03-terror-trial_x.htm?csp=36 (635 words)

	Newsday.com: Witness: Jailed Cleric Instigates Terror
		Abdel Rahman, 62, has been under the Federal Bureau of Prisons' strictest security measures - called Special Administrative Measures or SAMs - since he was convicted in 1995 of a foiled plot to wreak havoc by bombing a series of New York landmarks, including the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the United Nations.
		At this year's trial of four followers of Osama bin Laden convicted of bombing the U.S. embassies in Africa, a witness testified that Abdel Rahman issued a flier secretly from prison in which he called for Muslim men to avenge the indignity he suffered as a prisoner.
		The man asked Abdel Rahman what his wish was for his sons and the sheik replied, "It was all right for his sons to be assigned 'any work that could be considered jihad whether inside or outside of Pakistan,'" the papers stated.
	www.newsday.com /ny-nyshekvr2496804dec04,0,192801.story (570 words)

	U.S. Releases Abdel-Rahman Associate
		Ahmed, an associate of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, applied for political asylum in the U.S. based on his fears that he would face persecution if he were deported to Egypt.
		During the course of the proceedings he was arrested on classified FBI evidence linking him to the Abdel-Rahman terrorist group.
		Ahmed served as a para-legal secretary and translator at the trial of Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up landmarks in New York.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=360 (530 words)

	The New York Times > New York Region > Lawyer, and Her Methods, Are on Trial
		To her that meant sticking by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Muslim fundamentalist cleric, after his 1996 sentence to life in prison for a terrorist conspiracy against the United States.
		Rahman and vindicating her right to a passionate defense of her client despite his terrorist ties.
		Rahman from communicating with anyone except his wife and his lawyers, explicitly barring communication with the press.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/21/nyregion/21stewart.html?position=&ei=5007&en=60b31c3099899ce1&ex=1403236800&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1111554184-IDpnaHdzpdGNjvKo5IGMbw (1213 words)

	Time : Martyrs for the Sheik. (Omar Abdel Rahman) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		As Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt.
		Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials.
		Frustrated for months by Sheik Abdel Rahman's growing visibility, enhanced by his ties to some suspects in the World Trade Center bombing and the foiled conspiracy to bomb a handful of other New York City sites, Mubarak was
	static.highbeam.com /t/time/july191993/martyrsforthesheikomarabdelrahman/index.html (192 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Home \| Incommunicado
		Despite serving a life-term in a US prison, the blind Egyptian cleric, Omar Abdel-Rahman -- the mentor of Egypt's clandestine Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya's (The Islamic Group) -- was allegedly continuing to lead his radical group from his United States prison cell until not long ago.
		In 1997, special rules were imposed on Abdel- Rahman, banning him from passing or receiving written or recorded communications from other inmates, prison guards or people outside the prison.
		The 62-year-old attorney represented Abdel- Rahman in 1995 when he was convicted of seditious conspiracy.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/582/eg7.htm (1223 words)

	Blowback
		It was 1985, he told me later, and he had just spent three years in Egyptian prisons, where he had been severely tortured as he awaited trial on charges of issuing a fatwa resulting in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat; a military court later acquitted him of that, and of a related conspiracy charge.
		But Sheikh Omar's closest friend in Peshawar was a highly respected Palestinian, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, a man of erudition, refinement, and eloquence, who also had a Ph.D. from Al-Azhar but was everything the blustering Sayyaf was not.
		Muhammad Islambouli, who at one time was a student of Sheikh Omar's at the Upper Egyptian University of Asyut, has since that trip in 1985 become a leading figure in Egypt's militant Islamic Group, or Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, the first organization to claim responsibility for the Islamabad bomb.
	billstclair.com /911timeline/1990s/atlanticmonthly0596.html (3889 words)

	In the Bullpen » Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahmen’s Smuggled Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, otherwise known as the Blind Sheikh, has sat in a Missouri prison since 1995 for terrorism related charges (specifically his connection to the 1993 WTC attack).
		As it is long and I have provided the link to the full letter and a downloadable PDF file, I will only provide small excerpts.
		Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahmen is kept in solitary confinement for a variety of reasons.
	www.inthebullpen.com /archives/2005/02/26/sheikh-omar-abdel-rahmens-smuggled-letter (1065 words)

	FBI Affidavit Details Abdel-Rahman's Jailhouse Pipeline
		Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman laughed at the ease with which his legal team improperly smuggled messages that allowed the Muslim extremist to continue directing terrorist operations while serving a life sentence in a Minnesota prison cell, according to a sealed FBI affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun.
		In April, lawyer Lynne Stewart, interpreter Mohammed Yousry, and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, whom federal prosecutors describe as IG's one-man "communications center," were charged with conspiring to provide material support for a terrorist organization for their alleged role in facilitating Abdel-Rahman communiques.
		Yousry then reported that "some people" had spoken to Sattar about the attack on the Navy destroyer, "and said that they did this operation for Omar Abdel-Rahman so he could be released from prison." The October 2000 attack in Yemen killed 17 sailors.
	www.rense.com /general25/FBIaffidavit.htm (1295 words)

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