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This isn’t MB, but a different group entirely, called al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. They have been conducting a “hot war” against the Egyptian government, and from ‘92-’97 killed more than 1,200 Egyptians, including the head of the counter-terrorism police, a speaker of parliament, dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police. They have also tried to assassinate Mubarak.

The Egyptian government has arrested at least 20,000 of its members and killed thousands more. The Egyptian public turned against them in a big way after they carried out the Luxor massacre, slaughtering a whole bunch of innocent people.

Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman actually had the chutzpah to blame it on the Israelis, whereas al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri (#2), blamed it on the Egyptian police.

This about broke the group until finally it reached a “non-violence” accord with the Egyptian government, which caused a schism among its followers.

As far as Omar Abdul Rahman himself:

After the first World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, the FBI began to investigate Rahman and his followers more closely. With the assistance of an Egyptian informant wearing a listening device, the FBI managed to record Rahman issuing a fatwa encouraging acts of violence against US civilian targets, particularly in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area.

The most startling plan, the government charged, was to set off five bombs in 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI.

Government prosecutors showed videotapes of defendants mixing bomb ingredients in a garage before their arrest in 1993. Rahman was arrested on 24 June 1993, along with nine of his followers. On 1 October 1995, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy, and in 1996 was sentenced to life in prison.

Rahman in imprisoned in the Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina. Where he will stay until he dies.