Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Cleric linked to 1993 Trade Centre bombing dies

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WASHINGTON: Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptianbo­rn cleric linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, died on Saturday of natural causes in a US prison facility, the Justice Department said. He was 78 years old.

Abdel Rahman was serving a life sentence on several terrorism-related charges at a Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina. His death came after a long battle with diabetes and coronary artery disease, the Bureau of Prisons said.

The sheikh preached a radical brand of Islam and was seen as having inspired the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center, which left six people dead. AFP

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