You know I do not care if the Al Qaeda attack us or not. People are going to die one way or another. Do you know that 20% of the people in this coutry would not defend themselves or their families if someone broke in their homes to kill them?. We are a nation of Baby's and deserve everything that happens to us.

When this guy passes away. Tell me where he is buried so I can go and dessicrate his grave. I do not care if the Muslim Extremist's attack us. I will be ready for them.

He accepted a blood transfusion.
The blood used for the transfusion makes him a blood brother to the donar(s). We have treated him better than we have the vanishing American Indians. His blood has been shed in vain and replaced with some so called impure blood making him unworthy of burial in his own country (as a pure blood - whatever he is). Unless his fellow terrorist prisoners donated their blood specifically to him - In my opinion he is a man without a country. In saving his life through transfusion he gave his life and his soul to his enemy. It's amazing what one drop of blood will do.

1 down couple more thousand to go

It is time to tell the Muslim clerics throughout the world that passive endorsment by their silence to the murders committed in the name of their view of God is tatamount encouraging those activities. The cleric's are the rulers of Islam. Politics are a joke in a theocracatic culture. Most of the Muslims in Iran, Iraq, Pakastan, and Afganastan do not recognize boarders or political leaders. Democracy is a foreign concept, and they learn to fight as children. Tell the clerics that the US will no longer accept thier brand of savagery and that future attacks will be met with swift and devistating reprisals.

Honestly I am not afraid if we get attack. If they attach us okay we might lose some people , but they better get ready because they will lose more and trust me they are not going to have 1,000 virgin waiting for them on the other side. So brign it on Al Qaeda!

Where does it say that if the shiekh passes away we have to notify the world? His body was convicted of a crime and his body should remain in US custody until the debt is paid.

Turn the other cheek.
Love your enemies as you love your friends.

Rather, extract the most violent revenge, and remember your brother who spoke the truth and died for the will of God...The Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdel al Rahman. In the name of God the kind and merciful."

Comical Logic sums it up.

if he wants to remain dry in the grave, he better be buried in a raincoat.

what can we say

If this is a government ploy to scare our citizens into boosting Bushes approval ratings -- it won't work!! Ask Henry Bonilla. I live in San Antonio, TX and wondered how Bonilla's Ads tying his rival, Ciro Rodriguez, to terriosts activities. Such a vile, last minute attempt to affect the election outcome backfired and Ciro Rodriguez won with a ten point gap. No one buys this political crap any more!!

Perfect timing!! By the time the ACLU and the Liberal Democrats get through undermining Home Land Security they will be able to send a Nuke to Capital Hill via UPS. America, prepare for battle on our home soil.

If his passing is going to cause an uproar, why is it being broadcast to the world?

Bring em on, i got my shotgun loaded

I am sure he would have rather been executed, but putting him in a Federal Prison has nearly erased him from history.

Bring it on ! We Americans stand together !!!!!!!

Why are we even taking care of this piece of garbage, Let him and the rest them rot.

Where is all of the outrage by Muslim's condemming the Brutality being associated with this religion. Is the Muslim religion peaceful or is it's ultimate goal to wipe out all non muslim religions off the face of the earth?

Strange that Richard Esposito chose to begin his article by calling Abdel-Rahman an "imprisoned al Qaeda spiritual leader".

In paragragh four, Esposito finally gets around to mentioning that Abdel-Rahman was convicted of "conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks.".....You know those landmarks...like the first World Trade Center bombing where six people died and many were injured. But hey, they did die in a New York City landmark. You've got to love the American media.

Soon to be a good Muslim.

Every American, no every NON MUslim should see the DVD Islam, what the West Needs to Know. Featuring interviews with noted Islam experts Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bat Ye'or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and former terrorist Walid Shoebat, Islam: What the West Needs to Know examines the Koran, other Islamic texts, and the example of the prophet Muhammad to reveal that violence against non-Muslims is and has always been an integral aspect of Islam.

The Islam: What the West Needs to Know DVD reveals:

How warfare -- even terrorism -- in the name of Islam stems directly from the teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad and the commands of the Koran

The truth about Muhammad: a warlord with the blood of thousands on his hands -- and how Muslims are expected to follow his example, as Christians are to follow Christ

How the Koran -- considered by Muslims to be dictated word for word by Allah -- explicitly commands violence against non-Muslims who resist conversion or surrender

"Jihad": an "inner struggle" over temptation, as some Muslim apologists claim? Not so: how the Koran makes it clear it denotes warfare against non-Muslims in order to bring about the universal rule of Islamic law

How violent death in jihad is, according to the Koran, the only assurance of salvation

How, following Muhammad's death, his 'rightly-guided' successors carried his wars to three continents -- fighting, enslaving, and massacring countless Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and others

How Islam, unlike Christianity, flourished and spread primarily through conquest, not peaceful evangelism

How the Crusades, mischaracterized as a violent assault on peaceful Muslims, were largely a belated response against centuries of Muslim conquest of Christian lands

The Islamic principle of 'religious deception' -- which enjoins Muslims to deceive non-Muslims to advance the cause of Islam -- and how Muslim groups use it today

How, throughout its history, Islam has never recognized a distinction between religious and civil authority

How Islamic "sharia" law governs every aspect of religious, political, and personal life -- amounting to a form of totalitarianism analogous to Communism

What "brother" of his should we be sending the medical bills to? And why are my tax dollars and those of ALL my fellow Americans including those families that have made the ultimate sacrifice. I don't think our government should pass on one freakin aspirin to this animal. But then again, who asked us?

Tough luck, we should have put a bullet in his head 10 years ago.

If his god is kind and merciful, then why would his god's will be for the most violent revenge? He has no comprehension of what he's saying, and only ignorance could allow an individual to follow him.

Just another idiot soon to be six feet under

Wait a sec... aren't terrorists supposed to welcome Death and the 72 virgins hiding in his pants?

I expect al'Qaeda will be sending us flowers.

I live in Springfield. It's always amazing to find out how lives here over at that pretty campus.

I'm surprised so many of the comments here demonstrate functional illiteracy. Government schools are apparently as big a threat to our society as terrorism.

I don't like standing in lines to relieve myself but I will when this POS dies.

No big loss, I'll be glad to whiz on his grave.

Yes, yes, like they were waiting to attack us only when this guy died, not before. What's new? The same old garbage. It's amazing to watch how everything in the middle east revolves around violence, but don't stereotype them as terrorists. The only time this will all stop will not be when we defeat them time and again, but when these countries take a concerted effort to curb their own and the so-called muslims "moderates" actually take a stand and speak up. I don't think I have ever heard a Muslim moderate come out publically and say can't we all peacefully co-exsist. Why? Probably because another Muslim would kill him for it. It's a sad world.

IT WOULD BE PREFERABLE AND CONVENIENT IF MORE OF OMAR AND HIS ILK AND COHORTS DIED IN PRISON, PAINFULLY.

IT'S WHAT THEY WANT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

I am so sick of the attention given to these muslim bums. He should have been executed in 1998 if the US had any balls. Just as the American Taliban and any other muslim dirt that conspires to kill Americans. The hypocracy is that American lawyers got them lesser sentences in American courts in front of American jurors. That is the part that sickens me the most. They should take these types of lawyers and the rest of the muslim terrorists and send them all on a one way trip to hell.

Would we as Americans accept an Iraqi, Iranian, Turkish, British, Chinese,or any other country to have an airbase/military in our country dictating our policies? As an American wouldn't you stand up to this, some foreign power that doesn't know your culture nor care, bossing you around telling you how you should live. The hypocrisy is that by any means necessary I would defend my way of life here in America so it seems hypocritical that we would then be so hateful to those that do the same for their beliefs. How about instead of spending all this money fighting these people we just get the heck out of there. We've lost a war in Afghanistan and are losing a war in Iraq for what I would expect to be the same reason nobody would win a war on our turf, we wouldn't have it. Fact of the matter is they all want us out of their countries. Can you blame them? You can call them terrorists, al qaeda, sunni, shiite but in the end all they want is for us to leave. Wouldn't you want the same in their position?

I guess the Blind Sheikhster didn't see it coming... But he's been touch and go for a while now....

Mike Jones in regards to your 20% comment. I guess you can list me in the 80% group that would empty a couple of magazines in anyone breaking into my house.

With that said being I'm a good Christian I do want to wish the Sheikhster a very Merry Christmas.

A co-worker jokingly refers to cell phones being allowed in school as, "The downfall of public education--and our country--as we know it." We don't have to worry about Al Queda. We're destroying ourselves.

There are so many wakos in this country- Mike Jones is another one.

Let's just hope the bastard is suffering a lot of pain.

when the U.S wakes up and realizes we are alone in our fight against terrorism, and we get enough guts to flatten the whole problem over there, despite appeasement from liberals here in America, then and only then will we begin to win the fight. AND, It better happen on President Bush's watch, cause I don't see any liberal president with enough courage to press the button.

Thousands of Iraqis are being murdered by....Muslims. Yet not a word from these hate-filled, pathetic "clerics" who have the power (within Islam) to issue "fatwas." These are Mafioso-style death contract killings they call for.

The Islamic world sees "the enemy"
outside itself and takes no responsibility for its own sad plight...but it is within, and that is why these societies are universally totalitarian and produce virtually nothing either intellectually or technologically that our world needs.

NATO needs a "hit team" to eliminate those clerics who fuel the flames of terror in their flock.

"extract the most violent revenge, and remember your brother who spoke the truth and died for the will of God...The Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdel al Rahman. In the name of God the kind and merciful."

Pathetically humorous that this idiot combines "violent revenge" with "kind and merciful". This is the lunacy of Islam in a nutshell. (nutshell, ha ha, get it?)

there's still 80% of us who aren't going down without a fight..

My best offensive buddies are GLOCK, Smith&Wesson & SigSauer

--Quoted--
You know I do not care if the Al Qaeda attack us or not. People are going to die one way or another. Do you know that 20% of the people in this coutry would not defend themselves or their families if someone broke in their homes to kill them?. We are a nation of Baby's and deserve everything that happens to us.

"If you rub it in both at home and abroad that you are ready for instant war... and intend to be first in and hit your enemy in the belly and kick him when he is down and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any)... and torture his women and children, then people will keep clear of you."
Vice Admiral Sir John Fisher, Royal Navy, 1898.
We have been fighting psychopathic savages for centuries. The Islamists are no different. What really gets me is that they always refer to God as the "Most Kind and Merciful". Apparently the Koran doesn't encourage them to emulate God......

Why waste tax payers money to save him. it will cost us more to let him live in jail for 20 years.. please, just let the sob die asap..

Sounds like just another reason for the Bush posse to use threat of imminent attack to restrict more of our freedoms and tear another shred off of our constitution. Those who will surrender thier liberty for 'security' deserve niether. But the soccer moms and working men still cower in fear of the big bad terrorist boogeymen.

The government should find a way to send him back to his brothers and let them provide his medical care until he dies. Why waste taxpayer dollars keeping someone alive that probably should have been executed for his crimes against the USA.

What if the cowardly cleric recieved blood from a Jew?
The whole middle east blood type is the same.

I can not mourn his passing.

Did you know 99% of all statistics are made up? 20% wont defend themselves? Come to Detroit with your polesters

Interseting that treating an enemy with compassion comes back to bite us.
We should even the playing field. But that would require us to move back several centuries.

Don't know why, but you gotta "Have Good and Get Give" right? Lee Corso's merkin would agree, but don't discount the baby-arm.

One way or another, there is going to be an civil war over Islam in the USA. Just wait and see. One day, the people of this country are going to wake up and see that we are already surrounded. Theocratic rule is going to come to America. Sadly everyone is afraid that it will be coming from the Christians instead of the silent Islamic threat that is already here. Time to wake up.

A lot of truth in Mike Jones' first posting. If they attack, can we count on our neighbors to defend the neighborhood? In a new yuppie subdivision..............I doubt it. This brings it to another point..........the draft should never have been shelved. Eligible males don't want the intrusion and can't be counted on for a 2 - 4 year committment to their country regardless of whether it's carrying a weapon, twisting wrenches, or pushing a pencil. Now, the government needs additional troops in IRAQ and is scratching their heads trying to figure out where they'll come from. IRAQ won't go away until it gets cleaned up. As far as the blind Sheikh..........he should have never lived as long as he has.

One way or another, there is going to be an civil war over Islam in the USA. Just wait and see. One day, the people of this country are going to wake up and see that we are already surrounded. Theocratic rule is going to come to America. Sadly everyone is afraid that it will be coming from the Christians instead of the silent Islamic threat that is already here. Time to wake up.

Tim, you beat me to it. Add general ignorance onto your charge of illiteracy.

"Mike Jones" says we deserve to get bombed because he heard somewhere that 20% of Americans won't defend their families against intruders, and that he hopes they come for him because he's "ready." Obvious militia whackjob.

"just1vet" -- I can't imagine how a blood transfusion changes ancestry, which is what you implied with your comment. It's irrelevant, really, because Islam doesn't prefer any ethnicity over another and does not affect one's burial worthiness in any country. The "vet" in his nick comes as no surprise to me, since he apparently thinks Muslims have the same "swapping blood makes brothers" view that Native Americans do. Genius.

"Grumpy Grandpa" proves the claim that Americans got better schooling "back in the day" to be a lie, like almost everything else old people say. He obviously wasn't in the military or he would have fallen over himself to let us know how many zipperheads he killed in dubya-dubya-whatever. Those Muslims in "Pakastan" will face "devistating" attacks within their "boarders" if he has anything to say about it! Which he thankfully does not. But glorious national revenge attack fantasies are always fun.

I'd expect this if this was a local news site from Oklahoma -- what a shame that everyone gets this demonstration of American wit on a national news website.

"extract the most violent revenge...in the name of God the kind and merciful."

No sense of irony. In fact, no sense at all.

I for one am prepared. I agree...it's time to stop being afraid and time to START using power.

Power seems to be the only thing this group understands. How many more years will the US allow AQ to try and terrorize us?

Tim,
Very astute.

No sadness for this poor excuse of a being. His passing should be a cause for celebration - a rare victory for democracy!

Ah yes, his "kind and merciful" God that he thinks will reward him for being "most violent" and without mercy towards civilians, including children... in God's name no less. Really, with that kind of mindset - there's simply no talking to these animals and I suspect his journey into the afterlife will meet with much disappointment. It's a miracle we've not been attacked since 9/11 - and when it happens, we'll have a stiff reminder of what it is we're fighting against.

Good Riddance... I wonder if this bastard will get his 72 raisins when he finally gives it up. As far as AQ retaliating, I hate to say it but I hope they try (and fail, but obviously so they can be brought to justice). This country needs to wake up to the fact that the Religion of Pieces is out to take over, kill the non-believers, and enslave the weaker ones that don't fight. For the latter group, get your "dhimmi tax" money ready - for the braver amongst us, I will see you on the battlefield...
I will NOT submit!

Tim: I agree that the government school system is now a haven for liberal idiots but the 'four post' on here cannot be used as a yard stick for illitercy. I question your education also.

It's a fact the Americans are no longer equipped to fight any invader, weapon or mental wise. Half of the country have proven themselves cowards and more interested in politics than the safety of the country. Hundreds of thousands of left wing democrats have already proven to be full blown traitors. I guess they figure they won't die since they don't believe in god or judgement. I'll demand a political party breakdown of the deaths in the next terrorists attack. It will be interesting to see if democrats really don't die.
ROFLMAO

America as we know it will never survive unless we stand up and recognize that unless we accept Islam, we are to be killed. It is plain and simple. Iran's leader is the Hitler of our time and we are destined to go down silently like the Jews of Hitler's time unless we wake up and see that we have been sold out by the Halliburton's, the King of Saud, the Bakers and the Bushes. Bush has spit on our Constitution and the Islamo-Fascists laugh and scoff at our self-absorbtion. Yes, how will you protect yourselves against the man who will chop off your head, kill your babies and cover women head to toe. Wake up America -- 911 was just a TEST.

functional illiteracy? Just go to show that a little learning is a danger to those who cannout see the forest for the trees..

Some of the responses to this article are simply astounding, shocking, but most of all, ridiculous. From what source does this idiot get his information? I don't know of one out of 5 people who wouldn't die for their family...or their country. As far as this man...why are we wasting our resources on him? Send him back. He'll last a day.

Why waste time on this piece of filth? Hes spitting up blood? Too bad. let him die like the Animal he is. The disgusting thing is that hes getting top notch medical care. At taxpayers Expense. Sick.

The 68-year-old Omar Abdel-Rahman, should have relised where he was and knowned the LAWS of OUR land, before he entered first of all. And then relize that LAWs are just that in the U.S .Wonder if the man thinks the past 10yr of his sentance has been payed for by his so called God,Food housing clothing and I suppose a salary of some sort, And now "AMERICAN BLOOD" and medical care that most working people live with the fear of not having or how to keep when they do Come On ! if thats the case then Every working tax paying US citizen should have there say in what happens to him an all the others down there in the G.bay.Since we have been his sole supporters the last decade. Why was'nt he put to death long ago. Wait until thousands other die and he watches with a happy face & heart.There's just something not right about that! And I feel that if anyone in the states are not citizens be deported and then have to contact Imigrations to take corrisponding course for the next 20 yr to become a citizen before they are allowed to re-enter this great country we life in.So I say it's round up time for all none citizens and childern that maybe citizens would have to return to their homeland until they reach the legal age.And also tested for re-naturalation of citizenship.And If I recall there is a fee for the testing also and English language skills a must .If we want to care for someone lets start here in our own back years , Like the Native Americans for starters. You talk about getting the ax.And thank or living God we still have the right to bare arms .

I agree with "one down and a few more thousand to go" and add a few more thousand

What are Americans supposed to do? Go cower in fear for our lives every time some Muslim Extremist's gets sick and threatens us. If he dies, cremate him and then burry the ashes in a hidden location for the Geocaching treasure hunters to find. That would be fun.

"extract the most violent revenge, and remember your brother who spoke the truth and died for the will of God...The Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdel al Rahman. In the name of God the kind and merciful."

Pathetically humorous that this idiot combines "violent revenge" with "kind and merciful". This is the lunacy of Islam in a nutshell. (nutshell, ha ha, get it?)

Fear mongering...here we go again.

Hurry someone call the ACLU!!! If he is near death he should be released so he can spend some time with Jimmy Carter so we can better understand what we intolerant Americans did to upset him so much.
Then Jimmy can apologize, promise to give him a nuke reactor, beg him to not hurt us. I am sure this would earn Jimmy another "Nobrain"....I mean "Nobel Prize".

Blind huh? Wow - they could have all kinds of fun with this guy over in supermax...but really, why not just let the old man die...alone...in the dark...in his cell...in a pool of his own blood?

Who believes this administration anymore about terrorism?

Bush is looking for anything to take the people minds off of Iraq, and is praying for another terror attack.

It's a matter of time before we are attacked by terrorists strapped with bombs on our own streets.
It is sad that this world just can't get along no matter what we belive in/on.

People of the world need to wake to see what is happening. The media appears not willing to fill in the blanks. The idea of a Pan-Arabic state is still being pursued. Look at Africa in places like the Sudan, Somallia, Chad and even Nigeria. Muslim "armies of god" are on the move in the pursuit of new land for good god fearing muslims to live. They better be stopped or our grandkids will fighting in a real war.

I get so tired of reading about so called muslim clerics citeing the will of their "God who is kind and merciful" and then they encourage their followers to go out and Kill innocent men, women and children. When will the true Muslims stand up and loudly denounce these clerics who are destroying their religion or will they wait until the world is convinced that these radical Clerics are displaying the true interpretion of what the Koran teaches??? When will they band together to expose these Radicals for the killers (not Clerics) that they are.

Hey Tim! our government schools are a result of the Democrats throwing endless money at a proble m without standing up and demanding change. But don't worry you & John Kerry will be happy that more kids don't get edukated so thay can go to IRAK, git killed and further the Demmykrats agenda of "kut n run".

Bring 'em on - we'll leave the lights on...

WHEN THE BLIND SHIEK DIES MAY HE TAKE HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN HELL!

The Sheik's last will and testament is to kill Americans in the name of the good and merciful God. So this is the religion of peace?

Let him reap what he has sown.

The U.S. has only just begun to avenge the deaths of thousand of of citizens. WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

The idea of Islam is absurd and seems to be followed by ignorant people who do not seem to have a reason or understanding of life on this planet. So its understandable they will be up in arms over his death, seeing islam is ruled by ego maniac clerics

"extract the most violent revenge...... In the name of God the kind and merciful."

Yes, sounds kind & merciful alright.

This loser is going to burn in hell.

If his peons want to attack their getting the same dose of justice.

Mr. Jones, you are so incorrect! Read on to view my reasonings. I have conclusions I won't post here due to brevity.
It's not that we won't defend our families. It's really two things as I see it:
1) Draconian gun laws in certain jurisdictions which require too much for most sheeple to comply with, aided by the multiculturalists and diversity idiots, and
2) No-Knock Warrants. Too many sheeple don't have the backbone to insist on reinstatement of our former Fourth Amendment protections which are RIGHTS! In several instances, including a recent mistake concerning such against a 90+ year-old woman in Atlanta, we are allowing this country to become more communist while others are democratising more and more. The sheeple won't react until THEY are directly affected, and it's done out of design!! This is the price for apathy, not a lack of backbone - yet I will agree it requires more of the latter to achieve it.