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1993 Bombing

Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, died in a federal prison.  He was a key spiritual leader for a generation of militants and became a symbol for radicals during two decades in American prisons.

He was the leader of one of Egypt’s most feared militant groups which led a campaign of violence aimed at bringing down Egypt's Gov.

He fled Egypt to the U.S. in 1990. A circle of his followers were convicted in the Feb. 26, 1993, truck bombing of New York’s World Trade Center that killed six people.

Later in 1993, he was arrested, with others, of conspiring to wage a string of bombings against the United Nations and other New York landmarks, including the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

His longtime associate from Egyptian militant circles, al-Zawahri, allied with bin Laden’s  al-Qaida, now its leader.

The two groups shared an ideology rejecting the governments of Egypt and other Arab countries as infidels that must be brought down by force. Between 1990 and 1996, they carried out a wave of attacks on Western tourists, Egyptian police and Coptic Christians.

We let them in, Protect them, providing freedom, and they continue to plot against their people and ours. What's up with that.   Just a thought.