1.   He carries himself with the aloof serenity associated with that archetype of Islamic fundamentalism, the blind cleric.

2.   On the battlelines, bin Laden befriended Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, the blind cleric later convicted of plotting to blow up multiple targets around the country.

3.   Prosecutors have said that a blind Egyptian cleric, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was the spiritual leader of the group.

4.   They were charged with helping Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, an imprisoned blind Muslim cleric, continue to direct terrorist operations from his prison cell in Minnesota.

5.   Those restrictions were imposed because Islamic terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, pledged a jihad to free the blind cleric.

6.   Twelve followers of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, an exiled blind Egyptian cleric, are still on trial.

7.   A Bahraini opposition group said a blind Shiite Muslim cleric died in government custody Sunday as a result of ill-treatment.

8.   Abdel-Rahman, a blind cleric, kept his head bowed, as he had throughout the trial, while he listened to an interpreter through headphones.

9.   Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri, for plotting to blow up several New York landmarks.

10.   Another defendant, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, has been described by prosecutors as the spiritual leader of the plotters.