Talk:Omar Abdel-Rahman

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Which prison is he in?

A New York Times article "Tape Tied to Al Qaeda Urges More Attacks in Iraq" (Sept 28, 2006) claims that he is in Springfield, Mo, USA.

Which prison is he really in?

ADX Florence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.207.55 (talk) 11:30, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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The first sentence of the article reads:

"Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن‎) (born May 3, 1938) is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United States. "

Yet the last sentence in the "Activities in the US" subsection reads:

"He is currently an inmate at ADX Florence, Colorado."

Which is accurate?

--posted by trealistorm (Ylanne Sorrows) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trealistorm (talk • contribs) 00:36, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

He's all over the place, can't tell you how I know, but they don't want anyone to know where he is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.170.16.194 (talk) 06:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Better sources

This article has few sources its claims. Some links were gone or out of date, and not even from anywhere reliable. Since this is a newsworthy person and there should be plenty of references out there from news organizations, it shouldn't be hard. Wikipedia in general is moving in this direction.

The following link on the federal bureau of prisons demonstrates that as of 6/17/08, he is at Butner Federal Medical Center: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=rahman&Middle=&FirstName=omar&Race=U&Sex=M&Age=&x=26&y=27 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamsjrcn (talk • contribs) 18:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Not convicted of...

I removed this piece fo text: 'not convicted of conspiring to bomb New York landmarks including the United Nations and FBI offices on October 1, 1995 nor were they convicted of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, rather they were convicted under the US Civil War era law'. Can someone please demonstate how mentioning things they weren't convicted is notable? Were they tried and found not guilty, or is this just a rhetorical device? Ashmoo 02:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Proper transliteration, or lack therof

Jeez, that guy on the photo is the ugliest Santa ever seen! Ain't anybody a cute pic worthy of good ol' Umar "Handsome" abd al-Rahman?? And lest I forget: if nobody moves this article soon, some deeply hurt reindeer will - they got feelings too! Earnestly, speaking the contraction is ok, writing it is colloqial at best, poor from really, even if most English -and Arab- speakers don't know better - pls check Umar (name) and Harun al-Rashid. The wrong -though popular- form should become a redirect to the proper version.

The reader will then profit twofold: how to spell properly and how to become a pious man. --tickle me 15:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Seditious conspiracy? Now that's a trumped up charge if I ever heard one...... just plain rediculous. I'm not saying he's innocent, I'm just saying we need more specific laws to fit specific crimes. Also, does the encyclopedia really need to turn into Fox News? Non-stop terror alerts are exactly what don't need.

AgentSpion 18:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

It is concerning that someone would remove information about the legal processes that Omar Abdel-Rahman, the subject of the biographic entry, has undergone. In my view, it would have been preferable to amend the entry to indicate that the subject had been charged with specific criminal offences but subsequently acquitted at trial. While I can understand not wishing to perpetuate rumours and innuendoes, e.g. 'it is alleged....", Mr Abdel-Rahman did actually face court concerning these matters. As Wikipedia is supposed to be a reference source, deleting factual information could be construed as a form of censorship, especially if it precludes the reader from further research avenues concerning the events in question. Beacon Intelligence (talk) 03:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Claim associated with him

I've replaced the out of date Reuters source with an available one that I believe contains the same content. However, it doesn't seem to support the way the source is described, as a description of the 'will' of a person is far from an actual statement from them. Nimmo 11:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

question...

I question whether his sons' names are really Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman and Asim Abdulrahman. Arabic names don't have an inheritable lastname-surname. The first name of the father becomes the last name of the child. So each generation has a different last name.

If he followed the usual Arabic convention, and "Omar Abdel-Rahman" was his full name, wouldn't his son's names be Mohammed Omar and Asim Omar?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:26, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

The names carry more than one generation, so you might be Abdullah son of Ahmed son of Muhammad son of Abdelrahim, thus Abdullah Ahmed Muhammad Abdelrahim (sometimes with the "bin" modifier). So his son Mohammed is correctly named Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman, while his son Asim is likely Asim Omar Abdel-Rahman in his full legal name. But "likely" isn't enough to warrant changing a WP article's name, imho. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherurcij (talk • contribs) 12:54, 2009 July 18

Okay, so in your example, Abdullah's name is parsed, Abdullah (Ahmed (Muhammad (Abdelrahim)))? And he would be plain old "Abdullah Ahmed", except his great-grandfather was somebody famous? Geo Swan (talk) 14:40, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

from Al-Qaeda article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

According to Peter Bergen, known for conducting the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, the idea that "the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden ...[is] a folk myth. There's no evidence of this. ... Bin Laden had his own money, he was anti-American and he was operating secretly and independently. ... The real story here is the CIA didn't really have a clue about who this guy was until 1996 when they set up a unit to really start tracking him." But as Bergen himself admitted, in one "strange incident" the CIA did appear to give visa help to mujahideen-recruiter Omar Abdel-Rahman.

The CIA connection doesn't appear here. anyone think it should? Eyalmc (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)