Abdel-Rahman was born in the city of Al Gammaliyyah, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, in 1938.

Although Abdel-Rahman was not convicted of conspiracy in the Sadat assassination, he was expelled from Egypt following his acquittal.

Abdel-Rahman was issued a tourist visa to visit the U. S. despite his name being listed on a US State Department terrorist watch list.

Despite the U. S. support for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, Abdel-Rahman was deeply anti-American and spoke out against it, safe in the knowledge that he was speaking Arabic and unmonitored by any law enforcement agency.

Preaching at three mosques in the New York City area, Abdel-Rahman was soon surrounded by a core group of devoted followers that included persons who became responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Abdel-Rahman was the spiritual leader of the terrorists who were conducting these attacks ( the terrorists were members of his Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya ).

Kunstler was defending Omar Abdel-Rahman (" the Blind Sheik ") for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing at the time of his death.

The now imprisoned cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman was a spiritual leader of the movement, which actively campaigns for his release.

In 1995 Abdel-Rahman was convicted for his part in a plot, known as the ‘ Day of Terror Plot ’, to bomb various New York City landmarks.

Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U. S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention ; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings ( who chose to represent himself at trial ); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family.

In 2003, a controversy arose around the case of NLG member attorney Lynne Stewart, who was charged with transmitting " terrorist communications " from prison for Omar Abdel-Rahman, her former client and mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.

She was convicted of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, an organization designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Secretary of State.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman blamed Israelis for the killings, and Ayman Zawahiri maintained the attack was the work of the Egyptian police.

The plot was espoused by the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric in New York City, to be carried out by some of his followers.

The two took on controversial civil rights and criminal cases, including cases where they represented Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, head of the Egyptian-based terrorist group Gama ' a al-Islamiyah, responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the LIRR shootings, who would later reject Kuby & Kunstler's legal counsel and choose to represent himself at trial ; Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen-year-old girl for two months ; Nico Minardos, a flamboyant actor indicted by Rudy Giuliani for conspiracy to ship arms to Iran ; Darrell Cabey, one of the persons shot by Bernard Goetz ; and associates of the Gambino crime family.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (, ‘ Umar ‘ Abd ar-Raḥman ; born 3 May 1938 ), commonly known in the United States as " The Blind Sheikh ", is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United States.

ICP meetings were attended by Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, and Abdul Aziz Odeh, the Islamic Jihad's spiritual leader.

The cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman is the spiritual leader of the movement.

During theological studies in Egypt, Azzam met Omar Abdel-Rahman, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and other followers of Sayyed Qutb, an extremely influential leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, who had been executed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966.

A fifth group ; the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) had already in June seceded in the northwest portion of Somalia, renaming it the Somaliland Republic, with the leader of the SNM, Abdel-Rahman Ahmed Ali as president.

Wahhaj defended the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, the former leader of the Egyptian terrorist organization, Gama ' a al-Islamiyya by testifying on his behalf at his trial.

During the 1970s, Abdel-Rahman developed close ties with two of Egypt ’ s most militant organizations, Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya (" The Islamic Group ").

His name has also by as Abdel Rahman Ibn Awf, Abdur-Rahman ibn ' Awf, Abdur-Rahman bin ' Auf and Abdel-Rahman ibn Awf.

Abdel-Rahman spent three years in Egyptian jails while awaiting trial on charges of issuing a fatwa resulting in the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat by Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

In these tapes, Abdel-Rahman called for the murder of infidels, the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, and for Egypt to become a pure Islamic state.

Abdel-Rahman ’ s imprisonment has become a rallying point for Islamic militants around the world, including Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

* The wife of jailed Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman sent letters to U. S. president George W. Bush and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan leadership to urge them to exchange Abdel-Rahman for the eight foreign workers standing trial.

Abdel-Rahman became one of the most prominent and outspoken Muslim clerics to denounce Egypt ’ s secularism.

On September 18th, 2012, conservative opinion website Breitbart. com reported that Egyptian President Morsi's government is in current negotiations with the US State Department about the transfer of Omar Abdel-Rahman from US custody to Egyptian custody.

It is believed that like Azzam, Shalabi had become embroiled in a power struggle with supporters of Bin Laden, namely Omar Abdel-Rahman ( the Blind Sheikh ) and his followers from the Al Farouq Mosque.

* 1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist

In July 1990, Abdel-Rahman went to New York City to gain control of MAK ’ s financial and organizational infrastructure in the United States.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman blamed Israelis for the killings, and Zawahiri maintaining the Egyptian police had done it.

Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy, which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted.

His sons include Abdullah, Ahmed, Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman and Asim Abdulrahman.

In a speech to supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday June 30, 2012, Mohamed Morsi briefly mentioned that he would work to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, along with the countless other Egyptians who were arrested during the revolution.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.

It was there that the two accused civil servants were at work.

McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

Due to his close proximity with Jacques Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français ( PPF ) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaborationism, but died before the trial.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

On 8 November 1576, midwife Bessie Dunlop, resident in Dalry, Scotland, was accused of sorcery and witchcraft.

This betrothal was broken off in 48 when Agrippina, scheming with the consul Lucius Vitellius the Elder, the father of the future Emperor Aulus Vitellius, falsely accused Silanus of incest with his sister Junia Calvina.

Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.

He divorced and exiled her in 227, after her father, Seius Sallustius, was executed after being accused of attempting to assassinate the emperor.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

Although Amalric still had a peace treaty with Shawar, Shawar was accused of attempting to ally with Nur ad-Din, and Amalric invaded.

The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

This change was disparaged by critics as an end to the ' right to silence ', though in fact an accused still has the right to remain silent and cannot be compelled to take the stand.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

Capp was accused of propositioning a married woman in his hotel room.