Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman (محمد عمر عبدالرحمن) is an Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian who is believed to be in United States

United States

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 custody in one of the CIA's "black site

Black site

In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. Recently, the term has gained notoriety in describing secret prisons operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency , generally outside of U.S. territory and legal jurisdiction. It...

s". Also known as "Asadullah" (i.e. The lion of God.)

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch

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 reports he is the son of Sheikh

Sheikh

Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...

 Omar Abdel-Rahman

Omar Abdel-Rahman

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", 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...

, the "blind sheikh" who was convicted of involvement in the first al Qaeda bombing of the World Trade Center

World Trade Center

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, in 1993. Mohammed is alleged to have run a training camp, and have had a role in planning the 9-11 attacks.

An e-mail from Mohammed led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Human Rights Watch reports that Mohammed was captured in February 2003, in Quetta

Quetta

is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, and remains in US custody.

External links

1. Two Other Top Al Qaeda Operatives Nabbed, Fox News, March 4, 2003
2. How al-Qaeda 'chief' was caught, BBC
   BBC
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   , March 4, 2003
3. List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch
   Human Rights Watch
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   , December 1, 2005