ADEN: Al Qaeda has accused an “unresponsive” United States of refusing to free blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman in return for the release of an American hostage it was holding in Yemen.Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Qassem al-Rimi said the group had offered to release journalist ...

CAIRO: Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday in Cairo for the funeral of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who died in a US jail.The Egyptian-born sheikh died of natural causes Saturday at the age of 78 at a federal medical centre in North Carolina, ...