This morning at 9:40 a.m. EST Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (OAR) the spiritual godfather of al Qaeda, reportedly died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, NC where he’d been imprisoned for a decade. On any normal Saturday when the U.S. national security apparatus was fully intact, his passing would be reason to worry. Because Sheikh Omar was also the titular head of al-Gamma al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Group) one of the world’s most virulent terrorist organizations; responsible for the bloody 1997 Luxor massacre in which fifty-eight tourists and four Egyptians were murdered. Founded in 1928, The Brotherhood spawned two of Egypt’s most violent terror sects: The Islamic Group run by Sheikh Omar, and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. Considers Release of Blind Sheikh to Egypt” was the headline on Breitbart.com in September, 2012.

Source: Huffington Post February 19, 2017 04:07 UTC