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{{Short description|Egyptian-born American assassin (born 1955)}} {{Infobox criminal | image = El Sayyid Nosair mugshot.png | name = El Sayyid Nosair | native_name = ุณูุฏ ูุตูุฑ | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|11|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Port Said]], [[Republic of Egypt (1953โ58)|Egypt]] | children = 3, including [[Zak Ebrahim]] | spouse = Karen Mills | conviction_penalty = [[Life imprisonment]] | conviction_status = Imprisoned in [[United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy]] in [[Inez, Kentucky]]<ref>[https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ Inmate Locator], [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]: El Sayyid Nosair #35074-054</ref> | caption = Nosair in 1993 | alt = Mug shot of Nosair }} '''El Sayyid Nosair''' ({{langx|ar|ุณูุฏ ูุตูุฑ}}; born 16 November 1955) is a convicted killer, currently serving a life sentence.<ref name="abc-sonsbook">{{cite news |title=Son of convicted terrorist struggles to find empathy for his father |work=ABC News |date=2017-10-24 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/son-convicted-terrorist-struggles-find-empathy-father/story?id=50666963 |access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref> An Egyptian-born American citizen, he assassinated [[Meir Kahane]] in 1990 in New York City, and was later convicted of involvement in the 1993 [[New York City landmark bomb plot]]. Nosair was acquitted in his initial trial on murder charges for the assassination of Kahane, but in his later trial was found to have committed the murder.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fact Sheet: Meir Kahane & The Extremist Kahanist Movement {{!}} IMEU |url=https://imeu.org/article/fact-sheet-meir-kahane-the-extremist-kahanist-movement |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=imeu.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=184761|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818001119/http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=184761|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-08-18|title='Sharon was Kahane killer's target'|date=2010-08-18|access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref> In 1994, Nosair was convicted in federal court of nine counts, including [[sedition|seditious]] [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]], [[murder]] in aid of [[racketeering]], [[attempted murder]] in aid of racketeering, attempted murder of a [[U.S. Postal Inspection Service]] officer, use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, use of a firearm during an attempted murder, and possession of a firearm. Nosair's murder of Kahane was one of the acts in the conspiracy for which he was convicted.
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