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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ( Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), ( ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), 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, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States.
