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'Blind sheikh' convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in prison, son says
!['Blind sheikh' convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in prison, son says]( "'Blind sheikh' convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in prison, son says")
Omar Abdel-Rahman, the extremist Muslim cleric known as "the blind sheikh" convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a "war of urban terrorism" in the United States, has died in a U.S. prison, his son Ammar told Reuters on Saturday. Ammar said his family had received a phone call from a U.S. representative saying his father had died. With his long gray beard, sunglasses and red and white clerical cap, the charismatic Abdel-Rahman was the face of radical Islam in the 1980s and 1990s.
Belgium train derailment leaves one dead, 27 hurt
One person died and 27 were injured, three seriously, when a train derailed Saturday shortly after leaving a station east of Brussels, officials said. The train carrying 85 passengers derailed four minutes after leaving Louvain bound for the North Sea coast via the Belgian capital, the SNCB railway authorities said. "Rescue workers confirm the death of one person, three seriously injured and 24 others hurt," a Belgian official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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