We have something to celebrate today – scumbag terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the Blind Shiehk, has died in a U.S. prison.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, has died in prison in the United States, his son Ammar told Reuters on Saturday.
Ammar said his family had received a phone call from a U.S. representative saying his father had died.
Not only did he plan the first Trade Center bombing, but he inspired countless other terrorists.
His daughter announced the news on her Twitter account:
الشيخ عمر توفاه الله
— أسماء عمر عبدالرحمن (@DrAsmaaOmar) February 18, 2017
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The 78-year-old spiritual leader of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, or the Islamic Group, was revered within extremist circles in Egypt during the early 1980s. He was charged on suspicion of involvement in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, which he was acquitted of involvement later.