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38. Jama'a al-Islamiya warns US against killing imprisoned leader Jama'a al-Islamiya warns US against killing imprisoned leader

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
34
Article number: 
38
Date of source: 
August 24, 2011
Author: 
Munīr Adīb
Article summary: 

 “Hell will break loose for the US if Omar Abdel Rahman is killed in prison,” said Safwat Abdel Ghany, member of Jama'a al-Islamiya's consultative council, in a press conference outside the US Embassy in Cairo on Wednesday.

Abdel Rahman, commonly known as the “Blind Sheikh,” is allegedly leader of Jama’a al-Islamiya, a militant Islamist organization in Egypt considered a terrorist group by the US. He is currently serving a life sentence in a US prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombings.

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The group is also responsible for the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

“The US is a country of infidels,” Abdel Ghany added. “And our military council must hold it responsible if anything happens to our leader Omar Abdel Rahman.

“He was wrongfully indicted by a Zionist judge,” he continued. “His case concerns the whole Islamic world and not just us.”

Abdel Rahman’s son Assad, for his part, called on all Muslims to support his father.

[Reviewer's Note: News story was also mentioned in al-Hayāh, page 2, August 25, 2011]

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