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Melissa Block Reports From New York That Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman

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Published January 18, 1996 at 12:00 AM EST

was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without parole -- for leading a group of terrorist conspirators who were convicted of plotting to bomb various New York landmarks including the United Nations.

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