Blind sheikh buried in Egypt after dying in US jail
23 February 2017 |
4:29 am
More than 2,000 people attend the funeral of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheikh linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who died in a US jail, in his hometown of El-Gamaleya, in Dakhalia province, northeast of Cairo.
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