Democrat Meeting features Terror Suspect as Keynote Speaker (my title)

Staten Island Advance, Wall Steet Journal-Opinion Journal,FR ^ | Nov 21, 2003 | self, AP, JohnHuang2

[XHogPilot]

Staten Island Democratic Association's meeting this week featured "guest of honor" criminal defense lawyer Lynne Stewart, a former Islander who is facing charges of terrorism. Ms. Stewart keynote address updated the group on the government's case against her. Ms. Stewart, a former Stapleton resident who graduated from Wagner College, was arrested in 2002 for allegedly providing material support for terrorism, among other charges.

New charges have just been filed against Ms. Stewart charging her with conspiracy to commit terrorism by using convicted World Trade Center bomber Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman as "personnel" to carry out her acts. Additionally, she is charge with conspiring with the sheik to kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country, including Egypt's President Mubarak.

[XHogPilot]

Unbelievable, well almost.... Previous FR threads on the 'Rat Ms. Stewart: 7/22/03 Two Charges Dropped Against Attorney Accused Of Helping Terrorist

6/13/03 Lawyer Accused of Aiding Terrorist Cleric Asks That Charges Be Dismissed

[doug from upland]

Add her name to the long list of DemocRAT slime.

[thoughtomator]

Advising her future clients

[MindBender26]

Ckeck out her picture on Google pics. Truly one of the ugly women of the Western World.

Someone link if you can

[Travis McGee]

American terrorist ping.

[doug from upland]

This terrorist friend looks like a little grandma.

[MindBender26]

The federal indictment accuses civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart, one of Abdel-Rahman's lawyers, of "unlawful communications" with him during prison visits and telephone calls.

Stewart and the three others are accused of passing messages between the Islamic Group and Abdel-Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for a 1995 conviction in a thwarted conspiracy to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and bomb New York City landmarks, including the United Nations and bridges and tunnels.

Others indicted include: paralegal Ahmed Abdul Sattar, Mohammed Yousry, an Arabic translator who occasionally worked for ABCNEWS, and Yassir al-Sirri, a former head of the London-based Islamic Observation Center who is currently in custody in Britain.

"The indictment charges that these defendants worked in concert with Sheik Abdel-Rahman in violation of special administrative measures restricting Rahman's communications with the outside world, to provide material support and resources to the Islamic Group," said Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Beyond Attorney-Client Privilege

The indictment says that Stewart went beyond the limits of attorney-client privilege. Abdel-Rahman, 63, has been under the Federal Bureau of Prisons' strictest security measures — Special Administrative Measures — since his 1995 conviction.

The indictment accuses Stewart of, among other things, allowing Yousry during a 2000 prison visit to read letters to Abdel-Rahman from Abdul Sattar regarding whether the Islamic Group should continue to comply with a cease-fire in terrorist activities against Egyptian authorities that had been in place following the shooting and stabbing of 58 tourists and four Egyptians visiting an archaeological site in Luxor, Egypt, in 1997. The Islamic Group took credit for that attack.

Stewart, the indictment says, tried to conceal the conversation from prison guards, making extraneous comments in English to mask the Arabic conversation between Abdel-Rahman and Yousry. Then Stewart announced to the news media that Rahman had withdrawn his support for the cease-fire, allegedly further violating the Special Administrative Measures.

In addition, the indictment says that in October 2000, Abdel-Rahman issued an edict calling for the "Bloodshed of Israelis everywhere" from his jail cell. That edict was published on a radical terrorist group's Web site in Egypt. The Justice Department became aware of the edict through a court order in 1998 that allowed officials to secretly monitor Abdel-Rahman's jailhouse communications, even with Stewart.

Last year's trial of four followers of Osama bin Laden who were convicted of the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Africa showed that Abdel-Rahman is able to maintain his influence, despite being diabetic, blind, and housed in a 24-hour lockdown facility in a federal prison in Rochester, Minn. A witness testified that Abdel-Rahman issued a flier secretly from prison in which he called on Muslim men to avenge the indignity he has suffered as a prisoner.

Stewart pleaded "emphatically not guilty" in an initial court appearance this afternoon and was released on $500,000 bond. Sattar and Yousry also pleaded not guilty. After her court appearance, she told reporters and cheering supporters that she hopes her case becomes a "touchstone case … something that points out the limits the government can go through in prosecuting people they don't like."

"I'm not happy but I know a good fight when I see [it], and I think this will be a good fight," Stewart added. "They've now arrested the lawyer and the interpreter. How much further are they going to go? Are they going to arrest the lady that cleans the sheik's cell?"

Stewart, a 62-year-old mother of two and a Rutgers University law graduate, has represented clients that included Weather Underground radicals and mob turncoat "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Today's indictment is not her first brush with the law. In 1991, she was charged with criminal contempt for refusing to tell a judge who was paying her legal fees in a drug case. Eventually she pleaded guilty in that case out of fear of losing her law license

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

I'd say she looks more like a little grandma's domestic partner...

[doug from upland]

Your picture is more ominous. I sit corrected.

[PoisedWoman]

I saw Ms Rat on an extended PBS interview. Little whiny liberal voice, slime to the core.

[MEG33]

I have seen pictures of her that would scare children into hiding under beds and cause dogs to howl.

[JSteff]

Bump for later.

[Grampa Dave]

She is probably not all that unusual.

First of all she is Rat trial lawyer from NYC.

The difference between her and the other rat trial lawyers is simple.

She was caught in a terrorist abetting act. They haven't been caught yet.

[Travis McGee]

Exactly. She was caught en flagrante, that's all. The same subversives are teaching our kids about "Amerika" in every high school and college.

[Travis McGee]

Maybe it's time to bring back some old American legal practices.

[Libloather]

Wow. Monster RATS...

[Ben Hecks]

Here's some info on Ms. Stewart's relationship to Ramsey Clark, International Action Center/A.N.S.W.E.R. Stewart and Clark were the attorneys of record for Abdul Rahman. They don't come much lower than this, folks.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3340

[Wolfhound777]

Seeing stuff like this is incredible. It's past time to start making treason cases, getting convictions, and carrying out sentences of death.

[XHogPilot]

Ping
Re: Lynn Stewart, check out the info in post #18