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The blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman Influences

Egyptian election from a Federal Prison cell

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Five-time Emmy winning ex-ABC News correspondent Peter Lance has uncovered new

evidence on the impact that convicted terrorist blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman had on

the recent Egyptian election.

Emad Salem, the ex-Egyptian Army officer who went undercover for the FBI in 1993

and convicted Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others in the Day of Terror plot to

blow up the bridges and tunnels into Manhattan, learned on June 6th that Sheikh Omar,

74 who was sentenced to life in 1995 and whose communiqus to the outside world are

supposed to be restricted, somehow, was able to issue a fatwa endorsing the presidency

of Mohammed Morsi the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Egyptian President.

The day after the election, Salem discovered that the blind Sheikh, who is supposed to get

a single 15 minute humanitarian call a month to his family, was able to make a second

call congratulating Morsi. And within days of his election in a huge rally in Tahir Square

in front of Abdel Rahmans family, Morsi returned the favor by declaring that he would

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press for Sheikh Omar and other Egyptian terrorists convicted in the U.S. to be freed.

As a measure of the significance of allowing Sheikh Omar, spiritual leader of al Qaeda

and the accused head ofAl-Gamaa al-Islamiyya to communicate to his followers from

prison, the Sheikhs former attorney Lynne F. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of

conspiracy and providing material support for terrorists after she had smuggled messages

from Abdel Rahman to his followers during her visits to him in federal custody. She was

sentenced in 2006 to 28 months in Federal prison for aiding and abetting the Sheikh. In

2010 as a result of perjury at her trial and alleged lack of remorse, she was re-sentenced

to 10 years and as recently as June 28th, the sentence was upheld by the Second Circuit

Court of appeals.

In 2009 after Salem had spent more than 14 years with his family in the Witness

Protection Program, he reached out to Peter Lance and gave him the untold story of how

he had infiltrated the blind Sheikhs cell and could have stopped the 1993 World Trade

Center bombing, but for the interference of a senior FBI official in New York. That

piece, entitled The Spy Who Came in For the Heat can be accessedHERE. Salem,

whose life has been threatened multiple times, now lives under a hidden idenity inseculsion. But he keeps close watch on the political events in Egypt and lectures regularly

to U.S. intelligence officials. To visit Emad Salems website with more details on the

Shiekhs intervention in the Eguptian elections CLICK HERE.

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