It's worth remembering that Lynne Stewart was put on the blind Sheikh's case by Ramsey Clark...another anti-American, pro-Marxist, pro-Islamic terror supporter.
Bruce http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7201856 US Lawyer Helped Spread Terror Message - Prosecutor Wed Dec 29, 2004 03:02 PM ET By Gail Appleson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. criminal defense lawyer was part of a plot to help her militant Muslim client smuggle messages out of prison calling for a return to violence in Egypt and the killing of Jews wherever they are, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. The accusations were made in closing arguments in the closely watched case against Lynne Stewart, a liberal New York lawyer known for representing the poor and unpopular. Stewart, 65, has denied any wrongdoing and said she followed ethical rules that guide an attorney's behavior. Her case is being followed by the nation's defense lawyers, some of whom are worried the Bush administration is trying to intimidate attorneys who represent suspected terrorists and other unpopular clients. She is charged with breaking the law while working for radical cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. He was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets and is serving a life sentence. Prosecutors say the plot included the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center. The most serious charge against Stewart, providing material support to terrorists, carries a maximum prison term of 15 years. Stewart, together with the cleric's former paralegal and his translator, used attorney-client visits to the prison to take Abdel-Rahman's "terroristic" messages out of prison and deliver them to his violent followers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Dember said. "They broke Abdel-Rahman out of jail, not literally but figuratively. They made him available to other criminals, the worst kind of criminals -- terrorists," Dember told the court. MESSAGES FROM RIFAI TAHA The three are accused of helping Abdel-Rahman communicate with the Islamic Group, which prosecutors say is a terrorist organization and the cleric is its spiritual leader. Among the charges is that they helped pass messages from Rifai Taha, a militant Islamic Group leader, to Abdel-Rahman in prison. Taha urged the end of the cease-fire that the group had observed since its 1997 attack that killed close to 60 foreign tourists in Luxor, Egypt. Dember said the Luxor attack was a hallmark of the Islamic Group. "They committed this horrific act in the name of Abdel-Rahman to achieve his release," he said. "All they achieved was bloody murder." In 2000, Stewart called a Reuters correspondent in Egypt and read a statement issued by the cleric saying he had withdrawn his support for the cease-fire. That correspondent was subpoenaed in the case. Dember also accused defendant Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the cleric's former paralegal, of helping to draft a 2000 fatwa, or religious order, issued in Abdel-Rahman's name calling on Muslim men to "fight the Jews and kill them wherever they are found." Stewart has denied condoning the fatwa. The case against Stewart includes charges that she violated signed agreements to follow special prison restrictions aimed at preventing Abdel-Rahman from sending messages that could result in violence. The rules limited the cleric's access to mail, the media, phones and visitors. Dember said Stewart signed an agreement on the restrictions but had no intention of abiding by it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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