note the date...June 29, 2012
‘Morsi Promises to Free ‘Blind Sheik’ from U.S. Prison’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577497053026356034.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/29/mohamed-morsi-sheikh-us
This one actually displays content of Morsi’s words. Red meat to the crowd. I still can’t buy that Obama is THAT stupid. I could be wrong.
One of the problems with having a Muslim in the White House is that the US has become heavily involved in intra-Muslim fights. That is, it seems to me that generally Barry is backing the Muslim Brotherhood and the faction of Islam that it represents. The MB, in turn, forms alliances with other Muslim groups or, equally, attacks them, depending on what it thinks will do most harm to its enemies and help it to consolidate its power.
Even AQ is useful in this at times, if it’s in a place where there is little or no MB presence, and I think a lot of Obama’s “surgical strikes” on representatives of the various AQ rival factions were actually part of this policy of consolidating that particular group under one leadership that could then work with Obama and the MB to impose Islamic law throughout the world.
I don’t think they intended to kidnap Stevens, btw, much less try to exchange him for the Blind Sheik. I suspect that Obama will simply send the latter to Egypt as a “humanitarian gesture” before too long, and nobody will be able to do anthing about it.
I think they actually wanted to kill Stevens, either because he was an American and they wanted to the world to see how weak we would be in our response, or because they wanted to get the weapons that were supposedly being stored nearby. A plot to kidnap him and exchange him would be both too complicated and unnecessary.