Omar Abdel-Rahman
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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,, commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist and jihadist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butn
Portrait of Abdel-Rahman
Anwar Sadat
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Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who was the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. A former member of the Free Officers movement, S
Omar Abdel-Rahman
…tourists and four Egyptians were killed. The 9/11 Commission Report mentions his lectures as an inspiration for the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Abdel-Rahman was born in the city of al-Gamalia, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, on 3 May 1938. He lost his eyesight when he was 10 months old. He studied…
Sadat in 1980
Sadat with Mohamed Naguib, 1952
With Nasser in the National Assembly, May 1964
Top Egyptian leaders of the Arab Socialist Union in Alexandria. From left to right: President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat, ASU head Ali Sabri, and Vice President Hussein el-Shafei, August 1968