Omar Abdel-Rahman: what Wikipedia removed
The Blind Sheikh, convicted for the plot behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The 2005 opening tied him to “two of Egypt’s most dangerous terrorist organizations”, Egyptian Islamic Jihad among them. Jihad today: 0 in the opening, 18 in the body.
The word “jihad” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 18. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jihad | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| terror | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| militant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| islamist | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| massacre | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The Blind Sheikh’s New York cell lost its description.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2005-08-21, 4.153.212.81, edit summary: “cleanup” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 15989028):
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman / Umar Abd al-Rahman / the ‘Blind Sheikh’ was a professor at Al-Azhar and taught Dr. Mark A. Gabriel Ph.D. in freshman Qur’an . He was convicted in 1996 with several others for conspiring to bomb a number of New York City landmarks. He was the center of a terrorist cell in New York during the early 1990s that awoke America to the dangers of Islamic terrorism within their borders. Rahman was born in Egypt in 1938 and lost his eyesight to childhood diabetes at a very young age. He was driven to study a Braille version of the Qur’an as a child and soon developed an interest in the works of Islam purists Ibn Taymiyah and Sayyid Qutb . After graduating in Qur’anic studies…
2026 (revision 1360747698):
Egyptian Islamist militant (1938–2017) For other people with similar names, see Omar Abdul Rahman (disambiguation) . Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ( Arabic : عمر عبد الرحمن ), ( ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān ; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as ” The Blind Sheikh ”, was a blind Egyptian Islamist and jihadist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina , United States. Formerly a resident of New York City , Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing . Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama’a al-Islam…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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