Terrorist Turned Patient on the Mend
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
BACK TO JAIL Abdel-Rahman • Sick man: Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric jailed in connection with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, has been returned to prison after being hospitalized for a tumor on his liver. Authorities were concerned by Abdel-Rahman's illness—which was discovered after he started spitting up blood early this month—because he'd previously called for terror attacks in the event of his death in an American prison.
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