Editing Omar Abdel-Rahman (section)

==Imprisonment in Egypt==
During the 1970s, Abdel-Rahman developed close ties with two of Egypt's most militant organizations, [[Egyptian Islamic Jihad]] and [[Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya]] ("The Islamic Group"). By the 1980s, he had emerged as the leader of Al-jama'a al-Islamiyya, although he was still revered by followers of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which at the time was being led by [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]], later to become the leader of [[al-Qaeda]]. Abdel-Rahman spent three years in Egyptian jails while awaiting trial on charges of issuing a [[fatwa]] resulting in the 1981 assassination of [[Anwar Sadat]] by Egyptian Islamic Jihad.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NdyYjQxd7uEC&pg=PA41 |title=Africa 2012 - J. Tyler Dickovick|publisher=Books|access-date=24 December 2012|isbn=9781610488822|date=9 August 2012}}</ref>