Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Headlines from May 3, 1938

$9,144,000 Relief Voted at Night Session; More Evening Meetings Planned by Mayor

$10,000,000 APPEAL FOR CHARITY BEGINS; 1,500 Leaders in Many Fields at Opening Dinner-$760,000 Already Received

TIMES MAN FINDS CHINA HOLDING FOE; Goes to Taierhchwang Front and Sees Preparations for Counter- Offensive

Hitler Will Get a Ride Behind Horses in Rome

ALL FRENCH TAXES RAISED 8 PER CENT BY CABINET DECREE; Daladier Draws on Direct and Indirect Levies to Secure 4,000,000,000 Francs More

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