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Reuters: Terrorist behind 1993 WTC bombing dies in prison

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to 1993 World Trade Center attack, has died



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 morning at Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, where he was serving a life sentence. -- More..

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