Veteran Islamist preacher and theorist of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya group, Omar Abdel Rahman, died on Saturday, after 24 years of imprisonment in a US prison. Abdel Rahman was spending a life-sentence after being accused in 1993 of being involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center. The death of Abdel Rahman was mourned by different Egyptian Islamist movements. He is considered a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamist movement. However, the group has called for reconciliation and dialogue with the Egyptian state, while acknowledging the difficulty of Morsi’s return.

Source: Daily News Egypt February 19, 2017 16:03 UTC