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Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman was a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who lived in New York City. He was a
convicted of playing a role related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but was a controversial figure in his community even prior to
these charges.
Rahman and nine others were convicted on October 1, 1995]. Their case was prosecuted by the high-profile Patrick Fitzgerald. They were convicted not of the World Trade Center bombing, which resulted in six
dead and more than one thousand injured, but of conspiring to bomb New York landmarks including the United Nations and FBI offices.
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