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Mr. Abdel Rahman during a news conference in New Jersey in April 1993.
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times; thumbnail, Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times, 1995
Omar Abdel Rahman
Died on February 18, 2017 at age 78
Mr. Abdel Rahman was the blind Islamic cleric whose fulminating sermons inspired violent fundamentalist movements in Egypt and, an American court found, a 1993 plot for a bombing rampage in New York.
Notable Deaths 2017
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