PRESIDENT-ELECT

Morsi Promises to Free Blind Sheik

At speech Friday in Tahrir Square.

Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Morsi addressed thousands of supporters in Tahrir Square on Friday, telling the throngs, “The revolution must continue until all its objectives are met.” Morsi is due to be sworn in on Saturday, and the rally Friday was an opportunity to thumb his nose at the military council that has governed the country since a popular uprising overthrew ruler Hosni Mubarak last year. After calling the Egyptian people “the source of all authority and legitimacy,” Morsi—the country’s first democratically elected leader—promised that he would work to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheik" jailed in the United States for his role in planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.