Some involved in Omar Abdel-Rahman’s case had own notoriety
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric who died in prison Saturday, was convicted in 1995 along with nine followers of a conspiracy to blow up the United Nations, FBI offices, highway tunnels and other New York-area landmarks in a single day of terror.
He also was convicted at the same trial of plotting to kill former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He defiantly professed his innocence in the plot, declaring: “This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam.”
Some of those involved in that trial had their own notoriety:
LYNNE STEWART