N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison by Associated Press

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison
Writer: Associated Press
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1. Where’s the setting?
2. Who was convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in the United States in the 1990s?
3. What did he die off?
4. What does this sentence mean to you?  “Abdul Rahman was key spiritual leader for a generation os Islamic militants”
5. What is the name of the militant group that tried bring down former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak?
6. When did Omar Abdul Rahman come to the U.S.?
7. When did his followers do the truck bombing at the New York World Trade Center?
8. How many people were killed in this attack?
9. When was Abdul Rahman arrested on charges of conspiracy to carry out a string of bombings against the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and other New York landmarks?
10. How many years passed from when he arrived to the U.S. to when he was arrested on charges of conspiracy?
11. Where was Abdul Rahman born?
12. When was Abdul Rahman blind?
13. How old was Abdul Rahman when he memorized the Koran?
14. What university did Abdul Rahman attend?
15. What is Takfir ideology?
16. Who did Abdul Rahman say not to pray for in 1970 because he was an infidel?
17. For how many months did Abdul Rahman spend in jail for saying not to pray?
18. What two other countries did Abdul Rahman spend time in before coming to the U.S.?
19. Who was Abdul Rahman a spiritual leader for in these two countries?
20. Who was fighting Soviet troops with help from the CIA in the 1980s?
21. Was Abdul Rahman on a list of suspected terrorists and thus banned from the U.S. when he arrived in 1990?
22. Was Abdul Rahman given permanent residence?