Egypt's President-elect - Free Blind Sheik

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577497053026356034.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

-Your basic fruit of the Arab Spring.

Egypt's President-elect has promised that he will petition the US for the release of the  man behind the 1993 World trade Center bombing.

Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood peers stayed out of the anti- Mubarak fray until its success was reasonably certain but have wasted no time in showing their true colors. As Obama noted, the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization. So moderate are they, in fact, that life in Egypt has become a living hell for Egypt's Christians, the agreement for the supply of  natural gas to Israel has been terminated, Jerusalem has been slated as the seat of the planned restoration of the Caliphate, and so on.

Not content with these, Morsi reached into his hip pocket and pulled out the blaster. Hey, why waste time?

"Egypt's President-elect Mohammed Morsi made a nod to his base in a speech on Friday when he pledged to seek the release of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman from U.S. custody.

Sheik Abdel-Rahman, who is better known as the "blind sheik" is serving a life sentence at a federal penitentiary in North Carolina for his role in planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City......

Dozens of bearded Abdel-Rahman supporters, many in religious vestments, have slept outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in a sit-in that has lasted the better part of a year. A full city block of downtown Cairo is festooned with banners bearing the blind sheik's image—bearded, capped with a red tarboosh and 1960s-era wayfarer sunglasses.

For die-hard devotees, Mr. Morsi has taken up a cause that proves his revolutionary credentials: ousted President Hosni Mubarak did nothing to seek the sheik's release.

"It's wonderful. He did very good mentioning Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman," said Hesham el Ashry, a sheik supporter and a preacher. 'If America wants to be a real friend of the new Egyptian regime, they have to respond to the request of Morsi and release Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.".......

Sheik Abdel-Rahman was one of the primary leaders of the Egyptian militant group Al Gama'a al Islamiyya. Though the group was accused of masterminding the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Sheik Abdel-Rahman avoided blame and moved to Afghanistan, where he made close associations with Osama bin Laden, the late leader of the militant group al Qaeda.

In 1990, the blind sheik, who lost his eyesight as a result of a childhood illness, moved to New York. He traveled the nation peddling anti-American propaganda to Arab audiences before his conviction in 1995 on charges of "seditious conspiracy" in connection with the Trade Center bombing."

Abdel-Rahman is a bad guy. Morsi apparently sees him as someone to be honored. 

Things are set to get really ugly in the land of the Pharaohs.