Omar Abdel-Rahman ( , Umar ' Abdu r-Raḥman ; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017 ) , commonly known in the United States as " The Blind Sheikh " , was a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center , Butner in Butner , North Carolina , United States . Formerly a resident of New York City , Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy . His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Omar Abdel-Rahman