Why in the hell is this even under consideration?
From the New York Post:
The Obama administration is weighing the release of blind Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman — the spiritual adviser to the 1993 World Trade Center
bombers — in a stunning goodwill gesture toward Egypt that has touched
off a political firestorm, officials said yesterday.
The Egyptian
government “asked for his release,” an administration source told The
Post — and Rep. Peter King (R-LI) confirmed the request is being
considered.
The White House, State Department and Justice
Department each issued statements denying any deal is in the works, but,
“There’s no way to believe anything they say,” said Andrew McCarthy,
the former assistant US attorney who prosecuted Abdel-Rahman. “I believe
there may already be a nod-and-wink agreement in place.”
Abdel-Rahman, 74, was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks
throughout the city and is locked away in the medical wing of the Butner
Federal Correctional Institution in North Carolina.
He remains revered in his native Egypt, and his supporters have demonstrated throughout Cairo for his freedom.
Newly
elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a member of the radical
Muslim Brotherhood, has publicly vowed to press the United States to
turn over the sightless sheik.
His incarceration was the subject
of Arabic-language message-board rants two days before protesters
stormed the US Embassy in Cairo and later killed the American ambassador
to Libya, Christopher Stevens, according to a Department of Homeland
Security report obtained by Fox News.
They wrote he should be released, “even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it.”
The administration claims they are not considering the release, but was that before or after the news came out?
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