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“Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of 1993 World Trade Center jihad bombing, dies

Feb 18, 2017 3:07 pm By Robert Spencer

Said prosecutor Andrew McCarthy:

The Blind Sheikh is a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence graduated from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning for over a millennium. His area of expertise is sharia — Islam’s legal code and societal framework.

The jihadists who listened to him did so because he is an internationally recognized authority in the political ideology that draws on Islamic scripture to inspire attacks against the West.

The centrality of ideology tells us why terrorists obeyed the Blind Sheikh. It tells us why terrorists act. This is something we must grasp if we have any hope of defending ourselves and defeating our enemies.

He was a a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence and he plotted jihad mass murder on a grand scale. There is a lesson in this for policymakers, but are any heeding it?

“Omar Abdel Rahman, ‘blind sheik’ convicted in 1993 World Trade Center attack, dies at 78,” by Matt Schudel, Washington Post, February 18, 2017:

Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” and Egyptian spiritual leader who was convicted in the 1990s of being a mastermind of terrorist plots to bomb the World Trade Center and other U.S. landmarks, died Feb. 18 at a federal prison in Butner, N.C. He was 78.

Kenneth McKoy, an official of the Federal Correction Complex in Butner, confirmed the death to the Associated Press, saying the cause was diabetes and heart disease.

Abdel Rahman, who was blind from an early age, denounced secularism among other Muslims and, in the 1980s, built an alliance with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden while living in Afghanistan. He led a militant group in Egypt before moving to the United States in 1990.

In 1993, a bombing of the World Trade Center left six people dead and more than 1,000 injured. Abdel Rahman was later arrested and charged with being the mastermind of that plot and others to blow up the United Nations, Holland Tunnel, George Washington Bridge and other landmarks….

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  1. marblenecltr says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    The world is now a better place. Will he have a traditional Islamic disposal of remains, that is, cremation and burial at sea where bin Laden sank?

    • Kepha says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      Sea burial is out. Ocean life has still to recover from the pollution we introduced when we dumped in OBL’s shrouded corpse.

      • marblenecltr says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 5:24 pm

        You Green Peace alarmists are all alike, how about using the waters off Fukishima?

        • Kepha says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 2:03 pm

          Fukushima, please. Look, if this gets me worried about ocean pollution, when I have a bumper sticker that reads “Green Peace activists taste like veal”, then you know the pollution threat is real. 😉

      • eagle says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 8:51 pm

        I say piss on him, wrap him in pig skin and roast him. Feed him to the crocodiles…

        • Peter says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 7:03 pm

          Perfect!

        • Carmel says

          Feb 20, 2017 at 12:28 pm

          I suggest pigs over crocodiles….What do you think ?

        • eagle says

          Feb 21, 2017 at 7:48 pm

          I’m not sure, pigs are smarter than most Muslims. I say feed the crocks.

    • Mac-101 says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 4:17 pm

      Great comment. LOL!

    • murad says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 9:45 pm

      Abdel Rahman was later arrested and charged with being the mastermind of that plot ”

      The real MasterMind of the plot were those who gave him visa and imported him.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 1:39 am

      Abdel Rahman’s teaching lives on. The poison will infect another generation and another after them. Western countries must come together to devise a protocol to deprogram Muslims right out of Islam.

      Islam is too evil an ideology to allow it to exist. We must deprogram them out of compassion for Muslims and ourselves and future generations.

      Islam is a hoax, bogus, fake, phony, absurd, amoral, unhistorical, self-referentially incoherent, unscientific, non-rational, obscurantist. There is nothing in Islam that is worth preserving for posterity, except as a warning of what to avoid. Islam is a vicious death cult. In a nuclear age, Islam puts the planet at risk of destruction every day. This cannot be allowed to continue.

      • Peter says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 7:14 pm

        What Heavens could not do,the President does with the stroke of a pen. Anybody can be come a citizen of US overnight. What it will lead to is accumulation of slow poison in national blood stream which will eventually destroy the host.

    • Frank says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 12:40 pm

      STRAIGHT TO HELL YOU BASTARD

    • Erin says

      Feb 21, 2017 at 1:53 am

      What? Are you serious? Did my tax dollars pay for that? Wow. They left that part out of Zero Dark Thirty right?

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    That Sheikh Abdel after he died had found out the hard way that he was wrong , Very wrong and many ways . Meaning is had discovered that he had the wrong [false] religion , wrong teachings and had wrong behavior . To his total shock and horror after he died he found no paradise for him, with or without virgins, he just found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of hell. Luke 16:19-31.

    • JawsV says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 3:39 pm

      Islam is a total fraud.

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 3:41 pm

      He now knows the real truth, that Allah is in fact Satan and that mad mohammed of mecca was just one of the many tools that He used to spread evil and darkness through the World.

      • Erin says

        Feb 21, 2017 at 1:55 am

        Well, if you look at the way they live and the things they believe, it follows.

  3. copakeman says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    shiek wasted too much oxygen after being jailed.

  4. Richie says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    Hell fire now enveolpes him

  5. no_one says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    He knows the truth now.

  6. PRCS says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    Guess he didn’t see it coming.

  7. JawsV says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

  8. somehistory says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    Even with all of the bad news in the world, there is a little of the good too. Gone and soon forgotten.

    Worms will turn up their nose at his filthy, evil carcass.

  9. Carlos Danger says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    Most excellent. rot in your grave you pos.

  10. Regual Llegna says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Good, one ebil person less in the world.

  11. Regual Llegna says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    *evil

  12. Mac-101 says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 4:22 pm

    Too bad he didn’t git the “injections” Jack Ruby got as soon as he was housed in a Federal Prison. If so Benghazi would probably NOT have happened. It is my opinion that Benghazi was a set up to allow the CIA/US Ambassador to Libya to be kidnapped so Obama could trade him to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who was in charge of Egypt at that time for the Blind Sheik. Those Patriotic TRUE Americans who disobeyed orders and fought to protect American lives and killed something like 68 Islamic attackers messed up that plan!

    • somehistory says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 4:54 pm

      You are not the only one with that opinion about Benghazi.

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 5:08 pm

        I believe it is the logical reason for the enforced stand down order and why even BeTrayUs refused to discus Benghazi to the Senate Intel Committee and fled saying he banged his biographer and booked. No LOL!

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 5:12 pm

        Add to that the 4 Generals and Admirals who were relieved who wanted to send immediate reinforcements. Surely at least ONE Field Grade Officer can/WILL stand up to these scum! Have they not pledged to defend and protect the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 9:13 pm

      Mac, do you any evidence to back up your claims? I have never heard this theory.

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 11:11 pm

        No. Just put the above reported facts together and it is the ONLY logical explanation. One fact I didn’t mention was about a month or two prior, the Egyptian Government under the Muslim Brotherhood demanded that the USA release the Blind Sheik.
        .
        The multiple statements under OATH attest to the stand down order. At least 4, maybe 5 high ranking officers were relieved and the Heroes killed at least 68 Islamic attackers, and supposedly a couple of their Islamic buddies were found in the basement bein tortured by the operatives. Enough to change the “kidnapping” to a murder of the Ambassador.
        .
        Also how many protest begin with accurate mortar fire and supported with machine guns and RPGs
        .
        For Obama to git away with Releasing the Blind Sheik after THEIR successful 911 attack would have been practically impossible. If they negotiated the Blind Sheik for the Ambassador, Obama could have got away with that!

        • somehistory says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 12:03 am

          At the time and for sometime afterward, many people, some with seemingly inside knowledge, said this is what was supposed to happen, but didn’t because Stevens was killed.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 12:20 am

          Well, thanks, Mac and somehistory.

          By the way, I went to school with Chris Stevens. We attended History department courses in the same buildings at UC Berkeley, and I knew him well enough that we often chatted before classes.

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 8:37 am

          Graven Imagine. As a trained Special Forces Intel Sergeant one is stressed with the fact that there are NO facts. One must look at ALL the “facts” evaluate their truthfulness, then evaluate the source’s reliability and if it is intentional or unintentional disinformation and try to explain the outcome by putting the “dots” to paint a picture of the situation as you best interpit it.
          .
          The cover for years is that the Elites are just plain stupid and ignorant about Islam. This can NOT be possible for these people to advance in their positions one must be cunning and manipulative, not stupid and just git elected due to their looks. It is evident that Saudi, Oil Tick and BANKSTER money is involved. They are throwing away their and their children’s future just for Money when they got buckets full? So I figure Satan must be influencing them whether they no it or not.
          .
          Revelation explains these current events quit nicely. especially since it was written 2000 years ago when many things described were NOT capable of humans to reproduce. So is it the End Times or are THEY using it as a template to control/eradicate us, I do NOT know.
          .
          I for one put my entire faith and life in the hands of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior and will refuse to Renounce Jesus Christ nor will I ever Take the Mark of the Beast to be able to buy or sell! I sure hope I display the courage of the Martyrs in the ME and Africa today who are being beheaded before succumbing to Satan’s power!
          .

          .

        • Kepha says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 2:06 pm

          I’ll believe it when they declassify the communications and memos.

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 7:50 pm

          Don’t hold your breath for that. Why would the Stand Down order be issued? Why would at least 4 Field grade officers be relieved for attempting to ignore it?

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 4:17 pm

      Thanks, Mac-101. I saw this theory at the time and find it the most persuasive given the limited facts and disturbing factual gaps – where were Barry and Hillary?

      Tentative chronological background for further investigation by other readers and posters:

      2009 B. Hussein Obama becomes U.S. president with Saudi support after John McCain was bought off.

      2011 Mohamed Morsi becomes president of Egypt at the head of the Muslim Brotherhood with covert CIA support ordered by B. Hussein Obama.

      2012 (June) Morsi publicly vows to free (!) the “Blind Sheikh.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/29/mohamed-morsi-sheikh-us

      2012 (Sept. 11) Chris Stevens is kidnapped and later raped and murdered in Benghazi, Libya shortly after meeting with a Turkish diplomat in Benghazi (rather than Tripoli), perhaps to discuss Iran/Contra style arms shipments.

      Stevens had been Obama’s point man in establishing relations with Muslim rebels prior to the overthrow and murder of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. B. Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are AWOL throughout the incident.

      It appears that an airborne rescue mission actually reached Benghazi but was ordered to stand down. Several flag officers are dismissed in the aftermath. One flag officer was apparently arrested at his command post by armed inferior officers.

      2012 Nov. B. Hussein Obama is reelected after challenger Mitt Romney throws the second and third debates to the incumbent. (As a billionaire, Romney has billions of good reasons to play along and has been a reliable “moderate” for the Deep State since.)

      A drawn-out hostage crisis with appropriate theatrics (the President does not want to deal with terrorists, complicit MSM tug at heartstrings, interview mother, etc., President reluctantly secures release 2 days before election) would have worked well as an “October surprise” to manipulate a sentimentalized and befuddled electorate.

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 7:56 pm

        Well stated. It is the only scenario I can think of that makes any sense. As FDR said, “Nothin in Politicks happens by accident”. We will never hear the truth about anything. Look at the JFK files, still sealed along with Obama’s records!

  13. Troybeam says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Something the public might want to think about: becoming standard for Muslims jailbirds to get all the comforts of home: prayer rugs and times, halal food, Koran’s etc in jail… So seriously people your tax dollars made this man’s life a comfort even in jail, He bombs our nation, convicted and has the last laugh with all the appeasements in jail, what do you think the other Muslim convicts are doing, eating pork for dinner.

  14. Transmaster says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    Feed his remains to hogs, and make it known that is what will happen to any other Jihadists who come into the grasp of American Justice.

  15. Infidel from Down Under says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    The virgins would run a mile when they sighted this creep

  16. Lesley says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    Bad Santa??

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 9:24 pm

      Bad, bad Santa…

      The hats are a sign of having studied at Al-Azhar–in other words, this attack on civilians was orthodox Islam.

      The crazy thing is that few in the West at the time understood that this was a Jihad terror attack.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 4:27 pm

        The hats are a sign of having studied at Al-Azhar–in other words, this attack on civilians was orthodox Islam.

        Didn’t know that but always wondered – thanks.

        Will make a point next December making sure all the guys at the mall in red-white hats are legit Al Azhar grads 🙂

  17. Tom says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    So, he died while a captive of the infidel Great Satan, and did not die a martyr’s death. According to Mohammad, the only sure path to paradise is to die while fighting in Allah’s way. If this true, then we shouldn’t terminate these creatures, but keep them caged for the rest of their lives. Is my memory correct?

    Seems to me, since we have a facility out west designed to keep radioactive waste in safe storage that we’re not using, this would be a good use of tax dollars.

  18. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    “Omar Abdel Rahman, ‘blind sheik’ convicted in 1993 World Trade Center attack, dies at 78”
    Everyone please hand out candy and ham sandwiches.

  19. ElderlyZionist says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    Moms Mabley taught me to say nothing but good about the dead.

    He’s dead. That’s good.

  20. isabella says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 6:27 am

    I tink this guy probably misunderstood Islam
    It is a wonderful religion of peace
    He obviously had never read any thing about Islam or what the Prophet who was a peace loving guy said

  21. Fatts says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 6:53 am

    sedition: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

    Anybody residing in America who has faith in islam is guilty of sedition. Islam makes it a mandatory article of faith that a muslim should work towards the implementation of sharia. It is an article of faith for a muslim not to respect the authority in a given nation unless that authority is one that enforces sharia.

  22. Angemon says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    the cause was diabetes and heart disease.

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.

  23. Richard Hallin says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 8:25 am

    Any other good news stories going round the world today ????????

  24. FYI says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 10:20 am

    Looking at that picture ..I guess he’s….

    All dressed up and nowhere nice to go (and wearing with what looks like a Christmas hat).

  25. Edward Dillon says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    May he burn in hell.

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