BREAKING: Mastermind Behind 1993 World Trade Center Attack Dies

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.

 

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