Blind Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman dies in US prison
(WorldNews France)

Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born cleric said to have been linked to the 1993 World Trade Centre 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 Centre in Butner, North Carolina. His death came after a long battle with diabetes and coronary artery disease, the Bureau of Prisons said. The sheikh was seen as an......