The new Egyptian President, radical Islamist Mohammed Morsi, was sworn in today, and he has made the release by us of the Blind Sheikh, who is serving a life sentence for setting up a terrorist cell in New York in the 1980′s (the cell was responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing). Also on his resume is his signature on Osama bin Laden’s declaration of war in 1998.

Andrew McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Sheikh trial in ’95, has a good summary of his history of terrorism, as well as the administration’s general sympathy–through provisions of visa’s into the U.S., for instance–of radicals of Morsi’s and the Sheikh’s ilk.