CAIRO, Egypt - Omar Abdel-Rahman, the extremist Muslim cleric known as "the blind sheik" convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a "war ...

The controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour helped Dr. Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-American veteran of the U.S. Army who has been linked to the Blind Sheikh and to an Al-Qaeda front, win the ...

“Omar Saeed Sheikh sadly passed away to Allah,” Asmaa Abdel-Rahman, the old man’s daughter, tweeted Saturday morning, marking the death of Omar Abdel-Rahman, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York defense attorney and three other people were charged Tuesday with helping a blind Egyptian sheik direct terrorism from his U.S. prison cell by carrying messages to and from ...

Mohammed Abdel-Rahman (center), at a sit-in near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, where supporters of the 'Blind Sheik' are protesting his imprisonment in the U.S.Moises Saman / Magnum for TIME To even ...

Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (R) entering his apartment building with an unidentified man (L) after afternoon prayers at his mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 25, 1993. Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a ...

A decade of escalating attacks set the target on American soil. From the Gulf War liberating Kuwait to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing inspired by the "Blind Sheikh," terror escalated throughout ...

The investigation into the exact circumstances that brought us the twin attacks on U.S. diplomats in Egypt and Libya remains ongoing. Much remains uncertain. But a few new press accounts provide clues ...

"There is absolutely no plan to release or transfer the Blind Sheikh,” said National Security Staff spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan. "Reports saying otherwise are completely and unequivocally false." ...

On this day, Jan. 9, in 1995, the trial began in New York for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and his henchmen, accused of waging a war of terrorism against the United States. The group was charged with ...