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From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of al- Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in which he withdrew his support for their initiative to abandon violence. This initiative was originally launched in July 1997.
The author highlights the recent meeting of Jamā‘a Islāmiya, which decided to select Karam Zuhdī as the successor to the group’s founder ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān in case the latter dies in prison.
‘Abd Allāh, the son of Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, the former leader of the banned al-Jamā‘a al- Islāmīya who is currently serving a life sentence in the United States for his role in planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, has denied any knowledge of the death of his...
Sheikh Omar Abd Al-Rahman, the leader and mufti of the Gama’at al-Islamiya, who is now imprisoned in the United States for a life, changed his mind about presenting a request to return to Egypt because he doesn’t want to give up his activities for the Islamic Daawa, the call to Islam.
Egypt has said that it would not object to the return of a militant leader serving a life sentence in the United States on the condition that when he returns home he serves a sentence passed against him by Egypt some ten years ago.
Last Thursday Abdallah Abdel-Rahman, son of sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, was arrested and detained for 48 hours.
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