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The price of defending terrorists
Former attorney Lynne Stewart faces a steep sentence for violating security
requirements in the case of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
By Petra Bartosiewicz
July 15, 2010
This week Lynne Stewart, a former attorney who in the tradition of activist
lawyers spent her career defending cases of the indigent and politically
controversial, will learn if she will be sentenced to die in prison.
The charges against Stewart are related to a long-ago client, the infamous
“blind sheik,” Omar Abdel Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who in 1995 was
convicted of “seditious conspiracy” for encouraging his followers to commit
terrorist acts in and around New York City.
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Qaida ‘chameleon’ seen behind bombings
Published: July 14, 2010 at 11:17 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 14 (UPI) — A prime suspect in the deadly bombings in
Uganda is an
http://www.upi.com/topic/al-Qaida/ al-Qaida veteran named
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, indicted in the United States for the 1988 bombing
of two U.S. embassies in East Africa and twin attacks on Israeli targets in
Kenya in 2002.
In both cases, the attacks were almost simultaneous. Sunday’s twin bombings
that killed 74 people in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, also occurred only
minutes apart.
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