"Abdul-Rahman was heavily involved with the CIA and [Pakistan] ISI efforts to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan, and became famous traveling all over the world for five years recruiting new mujaheddin. [Atlantic Monthly, 5/96] He is "infamous throughout the Arab world for his alleged role in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat." Abdul-Rahman immediately begins setting up a terrorist network in the US. [Village Voice, 3/30/93] He is known to have befriended bin Laden while in Afghanistan, and bin Laden secretly pays Abdul-Rahman's US living expenses. [Atlantic Monthly, 5/96, ABC News, 8/16/02] Abdul-Rahman's ties to the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane in later 1990 is ignored. As one FBI agent says in 1993, he is "hands-off. It was no accident that the sheikh got a visa and that he's still in the country. He's here under the banner of national security, the State Department, the NSA, and the CIA." A very high-ranking Egyptian official says Abdul-Rahman continues to assist the CIA in recruiting new mujaheddin after moving to the US. This official says, "We begged America not to coddle the sheikh." Egyptian intelligence warns the US that Abdul-Rahman is planning new terrorist attacks, and on November 12, 1992, terrorists connected to him machine-gun a busload of Western tourists in Egypt. But still he lives freely in New York City. [Village Voice, 3/30/93] He is finally arrested in 1993 and convicted for assisting in the 1993 WTC bombing. [Atlantic Monthly 5/96]"10
>From: sean sullivan <seansullivan at earthlink.net>
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>Subject: [lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:41:37 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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>February 10, 2005
>Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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>Filed at 3:26 P.M. ET
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>A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line
>by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients -- a
>radical Egyptian sheik -- to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
>
>The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case
>of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for
>representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York
>legal scene. The jury deliberated 13 days in all.
>
>Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of giving material
>support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.
>
>The trial focused attention on the line between zealous advocacy and
>criminal behavior by a lawyer. Some defense lawyers saw the case as a
>government warning to attorneys to tread carefully in terrorism cases.
>
>The jury also convicted a U.S. postal worker, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, of
>plotting to "kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country" by publishing an
>edict urging the killing of Jews and their supporters. A third defendant,
>Arabic interpreter Mohamed Yousry, was convicted of providing material
>support to terrorists. Sattar could face life in prison and Yousry up to 20
>years.
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