Incredibly, the Staten Island Democratic Association has honored Lynne Stewart, a
lawyer under indictment for aiding the "blind sheik" terrorist plot. As
Taranto of the
Wall Street Journal reports,
Prosecutors say she, former U.S. postal worker Ahmed Abdel Sattar
and Arabic translator Mohammed Yousry helped relay messages from the
cleric to a radical terrorist group based in Egypt....
...
The new indictment alleges the same facts but brings charges under a
different section of anti-terror law--suggesting Stewart and Yousry used
the sheik himself as "personnel" to carry out their conspiracy.
The Staten Island Advance reports that Stewart was a guest of honor at a
Tuesday meeting of the Staten Island Democratic Association, a political
club. (New York's smallest borough, although it has almost as few people
as Pittsburgh, lost 221 residents in the Sept. 11 attacks.) Stewart
"updated the group on the government's case against her," the Advance
reports. ...
Remember Lynne Stewart? She's the "civil rights" lawyer who represented
terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheik" doing life for plotting
terror attacks in New York. ...
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