Editing Omar Abdel-Rahman (section)

==Afghan Mujaheddin==
Although Abdel-Rahman was not convicted of conspiracy in the Sadat assassination, he was expelled from Egypt following his acquittal. He made his way to [[Afghanistan]] in the mid-1980s, where he contacted his former professor, [[Abdullah Azzam]], co-founder of [[Maktab al-Khadamat|Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK)]] along with [[Osama bin Laden]]. Abdel-Rahman built a strong rapport with bin Laden during the [[Soviet–Afghan War]] and, following Azzam's murder in 1989, he assumed control of the international jihadist arm of MAK/Al Qaeda.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}}

In July 1990, Abdel-Rahman traveled to [[New York City]] to gain control of MAK's financial and organizational infrastructure in the [[United States]]. Abdel-Rahman is said to have established links with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who offered funding and military and logistical support to those fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Campo|first=Juan Eduardo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&q=said+to+have++established+links+with+the+Central+Intelligence++Agency+%28CIA%29%2C+who+offered+funding+and+military|title=Encyclopedia of Islam|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4381-2696-8|pages=55|language=en}}</ref>