N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison by Associated Press

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison
Writer: Associated Press
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1. The setting is Butner, North Carolina.
2. Omar Abdul Rahman was convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in the United States in the 1990s.
3. Omar Abdul Rahman suffered from diabetes and coronary artery disease.
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5. Gamaa Islamiya is the name of the militant group that tried bring down former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
6. Omar Abdul Rahman came to the U.S. in 1990.
7. Omar Abdul Rahman’s followers did a truck bombing at the New York World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
8. 6 people were killed on the February 26, 1993.
9. Abdul Rahman was arrested on charges of conspiracy to carry out a string of bombings in 1993.
10. 3 years passed from when he arrived to the U.S. to when he was arrested on charges of conspiracy.
11. Abdul Rahman was born in Gamalia, Egypt.
12. Abdul Rahman was blind at 10 months old.
13. Abdul Rahman was 11 years old when he memorized the Koran.
14. Abdul Rahman attended Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.
15. Takfir ideology is a radical interpretation of Islam that holds that those who don’t follow a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, are infidels.
16. Abdul Rahman said not to pray for Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
17. Abdul Rahman spent 8 months in a Egyptian jail.
18. Abdul Rahman spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan before coming to the U.S.
19. Abdul Rahman was a spiritual leader for the mujahedin in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
20. The mujahedin was fighting Soviet troops with help from the CIA in the 1980s.
21. Yes, Abdul Rahman was on a list of suspected terrorists and thus banned from the U.S. when he arrived in 1990.
22. Yes, Abdul Rahman was given permanent residency under the name Omar Ahmed Ali.