Mastermind Mind Behind 1993 WTC Attacks Dead
Fox News is reporting that the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, has died at 78 years old.
From 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 at Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, where he was serving a life sentence, Reuters reported…
…Bin Laden once credited Abdel-Rahman as the inspiration and justification for the September 11 attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center.
Breaking News: Report: Omar Abdel-Rahman, orchestrator of 1993 World Trade Center bombing, dies in prison. pic.twitter.com/mUHLmyRW4f
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