The execrable president of Egypt, Mohammad Morsi will be visiting the White House soon (do not expect Obama to give him “the Netanyahu treatment”) and he has made clear that as we approach the 20th anniversary of the first World Trade Center bombing (Feb. 28), he will demand the release of Sheik Obmar Abdel Rahman aka “the blind Sheikh”. I would not be surprised if Obama does so on “humanitarian grounds”.
by Matthew Boyle
The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is urging President Barack Obama to stand strong against new demands from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi is calling for the release of convicted terrorist Omar Abdul Rahman.
“I urge the Obama administration to stand firm against pleas from Egypt to free Omar Abdel Rahman,” Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, the new chairman of the powerful House committee, said in a Tuesday statement. “Releasing a terrorist who plotted against the United States and has American blood on his hands would be seen as a sign of weakness throughout the Muslim extremist world and will only serve to embolden our enemies who continue to plot against us.”
[......]
Abdul Rahman, better known as the “Blind Sheikh,” is serving a life sentence in U.S. prison for his role in the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. In that attack, six people were killed and hundreds were injured after a truck bomb was set off in the building’s garage.
Throughout September, reports surfaced that the Obama administration may consider releasing the Blind Sheikh into Egyptian custody. House Republican leaders – including eight powerful committee chairs – stepped up to voice their opposition to a potential transfer.
That prompted Obama administration agencies – including the Justice Department, National Security Council and State Department – to deny reports that they were considering transferring the Blind Sheikh.
“The blind sheik is going to serve out his life sentence,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in September, for instance. “There are no discussions about transferring him. [......]
Those public denials from the Obama administration haven’t stopped Egypt from lobbying for the Blind Sheikh’s release, and haven’t quelled worries from many in the national security community. Andrew C. McCarthy, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who’s perhaps best known for successfully prosecuting the Blind Sheikh, predicted in September that the plan was always to release the Blind Sheikh after the November presidential election whether Obama won or lost.
“I think the plan has been to agree to the Blind Sheikh’s release, but not to announce it or have it become public until after the election,” McCarthy said then. “That is consistent with Obama’s pattern of trying to mollify Islamists. [.......].”
Now that the election is over, Morsi is publicly pushing Obama to release the Blind Sheikh. In an interview with CNN that aired Monday, the Egyptian leader said he’s planning a March 2013 trip to the United States during which he’ll pressure Obama on the issue.
“I want him to be free,” Morsi said of the Blind Sheikh, adding that he “respect[s] the law. And the rule of law in Egypt and the United States.”
Morsi said that if Obama won’t free the Blind Sheikh, he thinks the convicted terrorist should be granted visitation rights with his family.
“Is there a chance for him to be freed? I wish this,” [......] “Egypt’s relationship with America deserves that these issues be reviewed, if that is okay according to the law.”
Read the rest – New Homeland Security Chair to Obama: Don’t Release the ‘Blind Sheikh
Tags: Matthew Boyle, Mohammed Morsi, World Trade Center bombing
It’ll be interesting to se what Obama does. I am sure he want to release this “holy” man, but politics may prevent it. OTOH, he has been re-elected, so he has more flexibility now. That statement alone should have been enough to defeat him. The American electorate is full of the stupid.
Dorian will like today’s Day By Day. Stout hemp rope, indeed.
I wouldn’t put it past that cocksucking buttfucker who’s sitting in the Oval Office to go ahead and release Rahman.
Iron Fist wrote:
I agree! Chris has been much more vocal as of late!
@ Macker:
The time to speak up is before they start hauling people away to re-education camps. I have an article in the hopper that I think you’ll appreciate. I don’t know when they’ll schedule it, though. It is about my favorite passage from The Gulag Archipelago. That is a singularly depressing book. I’ve never been able to finish it. There’s only so much of people getting arrested and shot, arrested and imprisoned, and so forth that I can tolerate. It is a very important historical record of Stalin’s rule, but it is certainly not light reading.
I’m willing to bet that Obama will release the “Blind Sheikh”. He’ll use the SOB’s declining health as a humanitarian reason for letting him go free. Only the heartless bastards the bitter clingers would be opposed to letting an old man go home to die.
Expect jugears to create a new problem or make an old one worse everyday for the rest of his term. This is his inner Nero in action, setting everything he can reach on fire.
@ Iron Fist:
I have read most of Solzhenitsyn’s books and look forward to your upcoming thread.
@ Iron Fist:
He’ll do it if John McCain and Lindsey Graham give him cover.
Today’s highlights include Slow Joe meeting with the NRA representative. I’d love to see video of that one…
@ Rodan:
If that’s the case, it is a done deal. McCain and Miss Lindsey want to prop up the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt more than they want to fight terrorism. Releasing the Blind Sheik would be another mile marker on the road to dhimmitude. I am sure Obama wants to do it.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
this OBC sez let him rot.
O B C !!!
(place hip gang signs here)
coldwarrior wrote:
An easy way to solve this problem is to shot the POS first and then send the body to Egypt with a note asking if there are any other prisoners they want released…
Forgive me but as an OT posting I would like to suggest the following as a topic for discussion on another thread:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/08/are-raising-generation-deluded-narcissists/
Sorry for the interruption.
No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer—gov kumo.
that’s right, gov. we dont.
Another way it could be done is for Egypt to agree to imprison him in Egypt -- and then when everyone has forgotten about it, free him on humanitarian grounds to his family.
@ coldwarrior:
Oh that’s easy.
It’s the sign of the crossed double pistols.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
i like that
Iron Fist wrote:
If Obama had his way he would be immediately released. However I think that would be too much even for the Obamabots.
Iron Fist wrote:
I predict it will happen.
@ Speranza:
If McCain and his gal pal give Obama cover, all bets are off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Like that guy the Scots released to Libya who was involved in the Lockerbie bombing.
@ coldwarrior:
Self-defense isn’t about killing deer. Every time they whip out that blather, we need to remind them that the Supreme Court has found that we have a right to armed self-defense. That is what is at the core of this debte. Liberals want us helpless in the face of the criminals that they lobby to get light sentances and get out of prison. Objectively, Liberals are pro-criminal.
Rodan wrote:
I doubt that even McCain would agree to that.
coldwarrior wrote:
Cuomo also killed Fracking, despite a study saying it’s feesible to do. He’s planninmg on a 2016 run so he’s going Hard Left now.
@ Speranza:
This is McCain we are talking about. He’s an open supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Don’t rule anything out.
@ Iron Fist:
kumo might have just destroyed any national chances he had
@ Iron Fist:
Progressives know that the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. They want a disarmed populace so they can implement their Totalitarian regime.
File this under the category of “I kid you not”
Bill Clinton to receive father of the year award Monica Lewinsky unavailable for comment.
coldwarrior wrote:
Have you ever looked at the amount of ammo expended on many police shootings? Most of the time against only a single criminal.
I don’t have stats, but often in the news there would be a hew and cry by the criminal’s family and other “supporter” about how many times the police fired their weapons and how many times the criminal was hit. The hit percentage was usually rather low. This by hopefully trained police usually at close range.
coldwarrior wrote:
He’s not getting the Dem nod anyway. That’s reserved for Deval Patrick.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t think that even he would go that far. Six Americans were killed in the first WTC bombing.
Speranza wrote:
I thought it was an onion piece!
Rodan wrote:
Deval Patrick or Martin O’Malley. Hillary is history and looks like shit anyway.
Speranza wrote:
Yes. Who, as far as I know, is way past his dead-in-3-months due date.
Rodan wrote:
Andrew Cuomo looks and sounds like he belongs in the first Godfather movie.
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually I think he died last year but that was past his due date.
citizen_q wrote:
cops dont impress me.
(was an MP)
@ Speranza:
The Dem ticket will be Patrick/O’Malley or O’Malley/Patrick.
@ eaglesoars:
I think he did eventually die, but it took him a couple of years. Time spent in comfort, as a hero of the Jihad. No way we should release the Blind Sheik, but you know Obama wants to do it just to spit in Amerrica’s face. He’d release Khalid Sheik Mohammed if he wasn’t afraid even the Secret Service would revolt.
@ coldwarrior:
@ Speranza:
@ eaglesoars:
@ Iron Fist:
Look at how the media spins rising unemployment claims!
@ Iron Fist:
When talking with others I also add that the nature of man and the nature of governments have not changed.
Rodan wrote:
another racial hire
Speranza wrote:
Plastic surgery can do a lot.
eaglesoars wrote:
yet not a peep from us.
@ Speranza:
… bumps in the road ….
… just bumps in the road ….
@ coldwarrior:
That was not quite my point.
In life and death situations it is difficult to hit your adversary, ego the need for larger capacity magazines. Irrespective of them deciding what I need when exercising my rights.
I would also point that these ignorant people are making tactical decisions for me for which they have no expertise.
@ coldwarrior:
When you do not have a serious opposition party, you can do what you please.
@ citizen_q:
sure. true.
and cops still dont impress me
@ Rodan:
Gun control is, as I said yesterday, about political control, not crime control. That is why no matter how many studies you come up with showing that guns reduce crime, the Left want gun control nonetheless. They don’t mind Chicago’s high murder rate. Indeed, I think that they want the high crime rates. Just as with their economic policies, you need to look at the results of their policies. Everywhere Democrat policies on crime have been enacted, crime has skyrocketed. Yet they want to take these policies nationwide. They are getting the results that they want.
Rodan wrote:
aint that the truth.
Christie getting praised from the Left.
@ Iron Fist:
They need to crime to have a police state appratus.
citizen_q wrote:
LOL
PIMF ego should be ergo
citizen_q wrote:
cops
ego
@ coldwarrior:
The Democrats can announce tommorow they are banning certain cars and nothing will stop themn. We live in a One Party Nation now.
@ Rodan:
And noticehow since Waco it has been the Left pushing the militarization of the police. Even the Department of Education has a tactical unit. What for? I’ve never heard an answer to that question. Government entities with no real police power having tactical teams? Stormtroopers for the Reich is what they are. People who’ll pull a trigger and never ask why.
Iron Fist wrote:
and the gop
@ Iron Fist:
i love seeing our lard ass local flunkies in tacticals.
i have actually laughed in their faces.
Rodan wrote:
That’s hilarious. One sentence directly contradicts a previous sentence.
contradicts
Yeah, I guess if you’re missing some data, your numbers are going to be lower.
So the Lockerbie guy finally died? Sorry I missed it -- could have raised a glass to his arrival in Hell
@ Iron Fist:
Goons for hire.
Yup, the Progressives have been creating this Fascist police infrastructure fior the last 20 years. To be fair, Many Republicans also supported this as well in the name of law and order. But we can make an argument that these Republicans are Leftists. But your point is spot on.
This is why the Obama Regime does not back Pot legalization. It opens the door for the end of the war on drugs. There is a huge Law Enforcement-Legal Industrial Complex.
@ coldwarrior:
The GOP uses Law and Order as the pretetx for their police state.
@ eaglesoars:
This really feels like a dictatorship. The media lies and makes up facts.
O/T:
http://www.14news.com/story/20538537/trail-of-cheetos-leads-to-mans-arrest
@ Rodan:
Yes, the War on Drugs has been a massive failure, and led to the loss of freedom not merely for the people incarcerated for drug crimes but for the population at large. And yes, both parties have participated in it. It is funny how the Left doesn’t object to moral crusades when they further Leftist aims.
1389AD wrote:
Must be an LGFer
Rodan wrote:
Two Parties in name only….
Rodan wrote:
Could it be because it really IS?
Nah.
well, got my 1st paycheck of 2013
it’s about 30 bucks lighter
could have been worse i suppose
President Obama: Don’t Do It!
@ Iron Fist:
The war on drugs is a sham. It’s an excuse for a police state and loss of personal freedom.
@ Rodan:
Well we know it can’t be Charles. He would have had to leave the house.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Yup, I have concluded the GOP is just a strawman. Look at foreign policy, except for stances on Israel, there’s no difference. Both support this Global Community garbage and do the bidding of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It’s a sham.
mskelly wrote:
He can’t even fit through his door probably.
@ eaglesoars:
It’s a soft dictatorship. Instead of secret police, they use ridicule and societal shame to achieve their aims.
@ Rodan:
there is a phrase for that
ummm
two party….
evil…
oh yeah
evil two-party money cult!
thanks TFK!
Iron Fist wrote:
I don’t recall which clause in the U.S. Constitution grants the Federal Government Police Powers beyond Treason, Piracy, and Counterfeiting. I thought only the States had them…
mskelly wrote:
good point
Rodan wrote:
beck can be a goofy dude, but he did call this before the 2008 election
Rodan wrote:
It isn’t staying there. Black boxes on our vehicles. Warrantless wire taps that don’t go thru a FISA review. Now they’re going for a national gun database.
gonna go make some bacon and eggs. BBIAB
@ rain of lead:
I am convinced the GOP is a wholly owned subsidary of the Democrats. They are perfect strawmen for the Dems. A conveninet boogeyman.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes he did. In retrospect the GOP had no chance of beating Obama in 2012. The election was just a sham. Then again, I am convinced the national GOP is just an extension of the Democrats. Notice at the national level you have whackjobs like Bachmann or Santorum who are convenient boogeymen. Meanwhile at the State level, most Republcians are sane and actually can make sense.
@ eaglesoars:
The war on Terror has been a sham as well.
@ Rodan:
Speaking of that, Eric Holder on guns:
Yes, freedom is so un-hip. Liberals are all about propaganda, though. They know the low information voters are susceptible to propaganda. But Hollyweird isn’t going to go along with this propaganda. There’s too much money to be made in movies that glorify gun violence.
@ Iron Fist:
He’s honest at least about his agenda.
Take a peak at my thread for 2!
@ Rodan:
I saw that. I’ve got one in the hopper. I don’t know if it’s been scheduled yet. I wrote it this morning when I couldn’t sleep. This gun control stuff has me all stressed out. They are playing with fire here, and they kno wit. They are very transparent in their motivation. This is all about power. They want absolute power in the United States. I don’t think they are going to get it, though.
@ Iron Fist:
You are up at 11!
@ Rodan:
Cool!
@ Iron Fist:
Jugears is looking for his “Reichstag fire” to set him free of the Constitution once and for all…
This may have already been mentioned (and if it has, please forgive my redundancy) but I haven’t heard “Gun Appreciation Day”, scheduled two days before the Inauguration called a “call for assassination” or some such rubbish…..yet. I thought they would jump on the opportunity! Have I missed it or something?
Rodan -- Levin mentioned on his show yesterday an article in Investors Business Daily regarding the deep infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into higher and higher levels of government. I believe that the article originally appeared in an Egyptian newspaper and was translating by an anti-Islamoterror group in Washington. I can’t for some reason get in there to post a link but I wanted to draw your attention to it in case you can find a way to get it and stick it in headlines.
Proves in many ways the points you’ve been making about not only this administration but the massive Saudi influence in previous administrations, as according to the article, they have been “sponsoring” this movement into the government for the last 25 years.
Rodan wrote:
Two horrible governors. O’Malley is particularly awful.
@ MacDuff:
The liberal media will certainly try to paint it as such, and was giving misinformation that it was a giant march on Washington and people would be bringing their guns.
In fact, it’s scheduled for January 19th and if my information is correct, you’re supposed to show your solidarity by gathering at your local gun/sporting goods store or gun show.
I’m thinking Dick’s Sporting Goods won’t have to worry about an unruly crowd that day.
@ Speranza:
I believe he’s responsible for the increase in population in Virginia. But of course, if you believe “The Wire” it was an evil Republican governor that caused all the problems in Maryland.
its the puti’s 4 year birthday. she gets to go
here
to pick out cake / cupcakes…these are the best.
bbl
Holy cow -- the predicted overnight temperature for my area tonight is LOWER than Speranza’s! Rain’s in the forecast. Wow -- maybe we’ll see some snow.
Carolina Girl wrote:
The low here tonight is supposed to be 56 and the high tomorrow 66. I’m digging the global warming!!
Speranza wrote:
We call him owe-mally, and is currently in full gun-grabber mode.
He also recently pushed to have families with incomes over 100K defined as rich, for extra taxes to pay their “fair” share.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Just look at US foreign policy, all we do is fight for Islamic interests. Both parties are at fault. I am glad Mark Levin is discussing this. He better prepare for the GOP Establishment to begin to isolate him.
citizen_q wrote:
I expect the new benchmark to be… If you have income not derived from a gov’t source, you’re rich and must pay more taxes.
/galt
@ coldwarrior:
Happy B-Day to her!
@ Speranza:
The Democrats have no serious opposition, they will get away with it.
@ Rodan:
Oh they’ve already tried -- they have Morning Schmoe attacking him and he told them outright on Monday’s show to stop calling his cell phone asking to “explain themselves.” Mark may be a little much from time to time, but he is more willing than even Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to tackle what I call the “fringe” issues that make people uncomfortable, such as this one. If this goes viral, it will be the replacement for the “birther” issue by the left.
@ citizen_q:
Like I’ve been saying, ultimately they are going to go after the Middle Class, because that’s where the money is. I think these next four years are going to be brutal. It’ll be worse in Democrat controlled states. I am reminded of Vladimir Harkonnen when he decided to put Beast Rabban over Arakis. He demanded income from the planet, and a brutal hand. That is what the Democrats have planned for us.
CynicalConservative wrote:
Trust me -- by the end of the year, most of us on this board will be classified as “rich.” They need the money and since the median income in the U.S. is still less than $75,000, those making over that will be defined as greedy pigs soon enough.
Rodan wrote:
BO is using the IRS to control business via Omamacare…that is frikken scarey…check this out
http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=718385
Rodan wrote:
pfft. Levin couldn’t give a monkey’s butt. The GOP Establishment should worry about Levin eviscerating them every chance he gets -- which is 5 days a week, 3 hours a day.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Did you know Virginia has an agency whose sole purpose is to raid businesses from high tax surrounding states? There’s an office in most VA counties. Loudon county did’t go from mostly rural to one of the wealthiest counties in the country in 12 years by sheer luck.
Before we discuss releasing the Blind Sheik, let’s give him a seeing-eye pig.
@ Carolina Girl:
I hope he educates people on this. Too many Republcians think Nation Building and helping the Muslim Brotherhood is good. But the GOP foreign policy establishent is filled with Islamic agents. It’s a tough fight. Nation Building is the heart of today’s GOP foreign policy.
Morning Buzz Ballad post-pimp: “The New Dictatorship.”
Going out to all you gun owners and would-be gun owners out there…
@ heysoos:
That is scary.
New Thread.
I brought it out early.
heysoos wrote:
And entirely predictable
Rodan wrote:
Why?
@ eaglesoars:
And it’s no coincidence that Mark Levin lives in Loudin County -- we hear about their taxes and the migration all the time on his show.
By the way, apropos of nothing, Mark’s podcast if FREE and if you have iTunes you can download it every day after 7:00 p.m. -- it’s always a nice thing to listen to on my way to work in the a.m. since the driver of casual carpool usually has that effing NPR or other libturd talking point station on in his car.
heysoos wrote:
This is what they are doing in most European countries. You can’t escape -- they have closed every loophole even at the prize of jobs.
Although health insurance in Austria is mandatory -- we have about two dozend of them and the government dictates which you have to attend -- the health insurance is NOT a company but an unincorporated association. They have as much power as the internal revenue office to inspect your business and can close your business if they find -- in their view -- irregular practices.
Carolina Girl wrote:
That “evil” Republican governor handed Martin O’Malley an budget surplus of $2 billion.
@ Speranza:
This thread has been up since 7 and broke 100.
@ Carolina Girl:
Uh, Loudoun County…
@ Mike C.:
Spelling -- not my strong suit until my SECOND cup of Peet’s (or Starbucks, whichever gift card I’m using at the moment).
Hee.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Speslling is hi-ly ober rwated…
Iron Fist wrote:
GMTA.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve always hated Cheetos, long before I ever heard of CJ. Never bought any in my life. Don’t eat ‘em if they’re in a bowl someplace. They don’t even LOOK like food to me.
Guggi wrote:
But Hillary with 40″ tits is still Hillary. Epic fail.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Why not try an operation to restore his vision by transplanting pig’s eyeballs into his head? Of course, he might get a nasty dose of MRSA, and croak, but the effort should be made.
Isn’t that guy the worlds first Islamist blues musician? Blind Mellow Jihad, or something like that?
Where’s our walking blues encyclopedia when we need him?
I say release the Blind Sheikh.
From 20,000 feet, with no parachute. And with 5 strips of bacon & his… best friend sewed in his mouth.