State Department considering negotiating with Egypt for release of Blind Sheikh

The Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, was the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a man who had plotted to murder Americans in the hundreds of thousands by blowing up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in New York. To release him would be a spectacular endorsement of jihad terror on Obama's part. Is anyone surprised?

"Source: State Department Considering Talks to Transfer ‘Blind Sheikh’ to Egypt," by Erica Ritz in The Blaze, September 17 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The U.S. State Department is actively considering negotiations with the Egyptian government for the transfer of custody of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” for humanitarian and health reasons, a source close to the the Obama administration told TheBlaze.

The Department of Justice, however, told TheBlaze that Rahman is serving a life sentence and is not considered for possible “release.” Previous calls to the State Department were referred to the Department of Justice and so far, the State Department has neither confirmed nor denied the report....

The Blind Sheikh is currently serving a life sentence in American prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but the newly-elected Islamist government in Egypt has been actively petitioning his release. Many have pinpointed a cause of last week‘s unrest in in the country to be protests over the Blind Sheikh’s release — not an anti-Muslim YouTube video....

A veteran intelligence analyst and researcher for TheBlaze said he met with an official within the Obama administration who told him the transfer of the Blind Sheikh to Egypt is something that is being “actively considered” by the administration as a solution to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. His source asked not to be identified.

When asked if the transfer of the convicted terrorist was being seriously considered, the intelligence analyst said yes, according to his source, who stressed that the move, if executed, was not intended to take place or be announced until after the presidential election.

He also said it is likely that the riots and unrest in the Middle East are related to efforts pressing for the release of Rahman, not the anti-Muslim YouTube clip that the Obama administration is adamant sparked the chaos.

“When radical Islamists in Egypt were calling for the burning down of the U.S. embassy this past weekend, before the riots took place this week, they said they were going to do this to push for the release of the Blind Sheikh,” he added....

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Life sentence means he stays there until he dies.

OBAMA = ENEMY OF USA. What else can we say? Time to act is now. Obama out of office in November. PERIOD

Robert,

Kind of reminds you of this story,

http://www.economist.com/node/18114922

What the hell is this administration doing?

R/

Paleo

as a solution to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

Are these people for real? I thought it was for humanitarian and health reasons...Now they want to elevate this terrorist to some kind of savior, who is the 'solution' to MI problems...Is he Mahdi? Is are State Dept staffed by psychotics, or just regular dhimmi'?

State Dept, while you are at it why don't you release all those terrorists at Guantanamo and shut it down keeping big O's election promise and be done with it!!1 Morons!!

What part of "life sentence" you morons don't understand???

So let's reward Muslim violence, again, and again, and again...?

This sounds like 100% Zionist propaganda to support Mitt Romneys election by the LIAR Nathanyahu and his Jonathan Pollard type gang in the United States with double citizenship. Maybe Neo-con Jews are behind this non-sense?

I doubt very seriously U.S. Department of State is actively considering, even discussing with Egypt to release the blind Shriek serving a life sentence in the United States.

I agree with many that the blind Shriek and Jonathan Pollard must remain incarcerated until their legal time is up.

Considering how many phoney protests there have been over the movie. Shouldn't there be one big COMBINED protest in Washington in support of free speech and our constitution?

COMBINED as combining SIOA, and ACT for America and all other related groups? Focusing only on the freedom of speech aspect and this?


Check out:

Check out:

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http://www.antisharia.com/2011/04/24/al-hussainigrand-mufti-of-the-palestinians-and-ally-of-hitler/

"Queen Rania of Jordan in a Video says the Koran does not Subjugate Women,she has Apparently Never Read It"

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To even think about releasing that murderous villian is in itself a very terrible thing.

Is our state department, our state department ? or do they have an allegiance with the Muslim Brotherhood ? I said this was a possibility in a prior comment. Scratch possibility and add, probability. Andrew McCarthy must be livid. Lockerbee highjacker murderer, the blind shiek, Nidal Hasan, is next in line.

Zionist propaganda? You'll find few sympathizers here at JW with language like that. Israel is a beacon of light in a very dark corner of the world. This is not to say that Israel is beyond criticism, but in my experience when I come across someone using a phrase like "Zionist propaganda" I know that an objective and three-dimensional assessment of Israel will never be forthcoming.

@danny

A Pedohammedan communicational sicarius, propagandist and disinformer talking about "zionist propaganda".

Cool psychological projection, bro!.

not all the oil under Egypt is worth the life of this adherant, who misled millions of African youth into forgetting their country manners and behaving like their sibllings do now

talk about cultural interference by foreigners. honest anthropologists (if there are any) should study the damage this mortal has done

Re the blind sheikh, it is a pity that he did not draw the death sentence. People died in the 1993 WTC bombing, even though the damage was nowhere as great as in the 2001 bombing.

If Omar ABdel Rahman is released, he will go home to Egypt where he will continue to encourage young men to kill themselves and others when they could be working on and thinking about ways to improve a country where the majority definitely need some improvements in their lives. Worse, Abdel Rahman's release will make it appear that the USA is weak, and caves to the sort of mob violence that we have seen in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. A far better tack would be to quietly tell Mori that if he plans to take an embassy hostage, the USA has options which Egypt will certainly not like.

State Department considering negotiating with Egypt for release of Blind Sheikh
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Madness. Is the State Department fine with undercutting the authority of American courts in order to reward Islamization in the Middle East by toadying to Jihadists? My God.

More:

He also said it is likely that the riots and unrest in the Middle East are related to efforts pressing for the release of Rahman, not the anti-Muslim YouTube clip that the Obama administration is adamant sparked the chaos.
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It's all of a piece—although the mau-mauing over the release of this vile Jihadist certainly much preceded the homicidal rioting over the YouTube clip, as we've seen here at Jihad Watch.

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“When radical Islamists in Egypt were calling for the burning down of the U.S. embassy this past weekend, before the riots took place this week, they said they were going to do this to push for the release of the Blind Sheikh,” he added....
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There is *always* a grievance de jure.

In many ways, the Blind Sheikh can be seen as the "Ur-Jihadist' of the modern phase of the Muslim war against America. What sort of symbolism would his release to the first Muslim Brotherhood state, and would-be founder of the Caliphate—send to Dar-al-Islam?

And what sort of messages would it send to the rest of the civilized world, which is at least sporadically attempting to protect their people against Jihad?

Muslim apologist "danny" wrote:

This sounds like 100% Zionist propaganda to support Mitt Romneys election by the LIAR Nathanyahu and his Jonathan Pollard type gang in the United States with double citizenship. Maybe Neo-con Jews are behind this non-sense?
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Ah, yes—it must be the Joooooooooos! Never mind that the Muslim Brotherhood has been calling for the release of this vile Jihadist since the beginning, and that the us administration has been falling all over themselves to send over a billion dollars in aid to that Islamist state. All of this is common knowledge, and amply documented in the mainstream press.

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I agree with many that the blind Shriek and Jonathan Pollard must remain incarcerated until their legal time is up.
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More grotesque moral equivalence. While Jonathan Pollard can in no way be excused for spying for a foreign nation, he was working with a US ally. No one was hurt by espionage.

The Blind Sheikh, on the other hand, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. He killed six innocent people, and had intended to kill many more. The bombs he set in the lower-level parking garages were *intended to bring the buildings down*—does that sound familiar?

In fact, it is almost certainly his attempt that led directly to the WTC being targeted on 9/11—and *that* attack led to the destruction of the towers, several surrounding buildings, and *the murder of almost 3000 people*.

Moral equivalency? Not on your ass...

100 to 1 that Obama's phone call to Morsi was about Morsi calling off the protests scheduled for the coming week in consideration for the blind murderer.

The US was first in line to condemn the UK weasels for releasing Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber.

I think it's only fair for the UK to condemn the US weasels when they release the blind sheik, and then we can all live happily ever after.

The scary period will be when Barry O is issuing his 11th hour pardons, if one will be waiting for the poor old blind Sheikh....I'm extremely worried about what kind of scumbags he is going to be letting off the hook and back into society.

Notice we have no idea who the source of this story is. Perhaps I'm being naive, but I find it simply too incredible to believe that Obama is considering releasing the mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing. That would be releasing Osama bin Laden's direct predecessor in terror. It would be political suicide for Obama and the Democratic Party. Why would Obama, whether an Islamophile or actually Muslim himself, blow his political capital on releasing that one guy, instead of spending that political capital on a million other things Obama could do for the Islamic world without raising an uproar and crippling his ability to do anything else in a second term?

On the other hand, the Blind Sheikh has been in jail getting on toward twenty years now. Maybe Obama is afraid to have him die in a U.S. prison. Maybe the Obama team is thinking it can get something or other we don't know about from Egypt in return for the Blind Shiekh.

Okay, I suppose it is just barely possible that some idiot in the State Department, or Obama himself, might have considered or be considering a release. Hard to believe, and I don't really believe it, but I guess it's possible. Admittedly, it's not so very far out of line with the rest of Obama's leftie, post-Western foreign policy.

There you go again....another smokescreen spinmaster

Watch the violent rantings if this blind Shit - oops, sheikh, dies in a US prison. Ignore the fact that this bastard is old, or dying of hatred toward the west; the mad Muslims of the world will have a conspiracy theory going before this mongrel hits the dirt.
I think, if there is any truth in the US wanting to release this sheikh, it will be because Washington are hoping that releasing such a prominent figure the violence will cease. Pigs will fly too. Their hatred is ignited at the drop of a hat. Nothing short of bending over and becoming a Sharia state will appease those who are now threatening every American and American institution worldwide.
This latest violence will hopefully topple those "fence-sitters", into reality.

‘Blind Sheikh’ to Egypt, If this happens this Dictator in the Oval Office and his staff need to be tried for Treason, Yes Treason, and Congress needs to put a stop to this Bull Shit that is going on. These people in the White House do not, not understand freedom and that the American's that have Died are not receiving respect, this is like Spitting on them and there Families!
God Bless America!!!!!!!!!

Little Don.

It surely would be an insult to any civilized person who has fought for democracy.
I would be appalled if they even contemplated releasing this guy.
Knowing what sort of cowards we have become in the face of Islam, nothing would surprise me.

What an outrage! At a stroke, Bin Bama would undermine the West, the rule of law, civilisation and show the islamic jihad that the US is, indeed, already subjugated - not to mention the insult to US and Western troops in Afghanistan and all the bereaved victims of islam

OK - release him in Dearborn - he will think it is Egypt

LOL, IMMELMAN ! ! !

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