Efforts For Release
In a speech to supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday June 30, 2012, Mohamed Morsi briefly mentioned that he would work to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, along with the countless other Egyptians who were arrested during the revolution. A Brotherhood spokesperson later said that the extradition was for humanitarian reasons and that Morsi didn't intend to overturn Mr. Abdel Rahman's criminal convictions.
On September 18, 2012, conservative opinion website Breitbart.com reported that Egyptian President Morsi's government is in current negotiations with the US State Department about the transfer of Omar Abdel-Rahman from US custody to Egyptian custody.
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