Imprisonment in Egypt ĭuring the 1970s, Abdel-Rahman developed close ties with two of Egypt's most militant organizations, Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya ('The Islamic Group'). Asim was a close associate of Osama bin Laden following the September 11th attacks. He was later extradited to Egypt and was released in 2010. Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Ahmed was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan in 2011. His sons include Ahmed, Mohammed and Asim. Omar Abdel-Rahman had two wives, who bore him 10 children: Aisha Hassan Gouda (7 sons), and Aisha Zohdi (3 children). Abdel-Rahman became one of the most prominent and outspoken Muslim clerics to denounce Egypt's secularism.

Soon after leaving university, Abdel-Rahman began preaching against the secular regime of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. His thesis was entitled Al-Qu'ran Min Khushumihi Kama Tashawwarahu Surah At-Tawba (The Qur'an's Attitude toward Its Opponents in the Perspective of Surah At-Tawba), which 'received international acclaims with the highest grade.' Part of the 2,000-page dissertation has been published in book form in 2006 in Egypt as Mawqif al-Qur'an min khusumih. He studied at Cairo University's School of Theology and later earned a Doctorate in Tafsir (quranic interpretation) from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He developed an interest in the works of Ibn Taymiyah and Sayyid Qutb. He studied a Braille version of the Qur'an as a child, had it memorized by age 11 and was sent to an Islamic boarding school. He lost his eyesight when he was 10 months old. The group was responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.Ībdel-Rahman was born in the city of al-Gamalia, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, on. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.Ībdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'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. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ( Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), ( ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as ' The Blind Sheikh', was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States.

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