Leading international news coverage on Egypt this morning is the return of the body of convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman “the blind sheikh” to Egypt, with Reuters reporting that thousands turned up to the terrorist’s funeral. Abdel-Rahman was the spiritual leader of the Jama’a Islamiyya and sentenced to life in prison in the United States for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as plotting a string of other terror attacks.
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