Even my beeber was stuned!!!
I've seen homeless women who were babes next to her!
Posted on 10/16/2006 11:33:35 AM PDT by areafiftyone
NEW YORK -- Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison in federal court in Manhattan Monday. She was convicted of providing support to terrorists by helping a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.
Before sentencing, her lawyer told the judge that any prison sentence for Stewart would be a death sentence because of her serious health problems.
Stewart pleaded with the judge to allow her to live out the rest of her life "productively, lovingly, righteously.''
Assistant US Attorney Andrew Dember rejected defense suggestions that Stewart's conduct was judged differently after
9-11.
"This case had nothing to do with September 11,'' Dember told the judge. "What she was doing was smuggling terrorism messages and smuggling out Abdel-Rahman's responses.''
When Stewart arrived at the courthouse this morning, about 150 supporters chanted "Free Lynne, Free Lynne.''
Federal prosecutors say she had released a statement by Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind sheik sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted in plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt's president.
I'm not sure yet- I was hoping to get more insight from any links people may have kept.
Liberals applauding decision and saying that it is actually too harsh a sentence.... Is there any doubt the U.S. is going to lose this war....
You'd think we owed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg an apology after this.
Are you sure they weren't chanting
"FREE LYNNE BIN STEWART!"
"FREE LYNNE BIN STEWART!"
The Ugly Lib Jihadi Stewart has more facial hair than Osama Bin Laden.
I just vomited. Thanks.
Hey, consider it part of a weight loss program for all of us!
Investigators also cited the fact that a cousin of the slain family was working with the prosecution in the Lynne Stewart case . Stewart was one of the lawyers for Omar Abdel Rahman, aka 'The Blind Sheik' who was jailed for helping to orchestrate the WTC bombing in 1993. Stewart and an interpreter, and the Egyptian born Abdel Satter, a postman from Staten Island, were accused of smuggling out 'fatwas' written by Abdel Rahman to his followers in the Armed Islamic Group. Some of the fatwas resulted in an attacks in Egypt and one in which 16 Greek tourists were killed when followers of Rahman sprayed their bus was sprayed with machine fire in front of their hotel.------- "Jihad in New Jersey: Coptic Christian family slain and mutilated :'Islamic Hate' cited as motive," Militant Islam Monitor, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/384
http://www.richardmullenax.com/?page=columns&art=32947
"Jihad in New Jersey"
By Judson Cox
Monday 17th of January 2005 09:17 AM MST
Yesterday, Hossam Armanious, his wife Amal Garas and their daughters, Monica (8) and Sylvia (15) were found murdered in their New Jersey home. The reason this family was so brutally murdered appears to be that they were outspoken critics of Islam. The family was bound and tortured, before their throats were slit in accord with the instructions for executing nonbelievers, as detailed in the Koran: (47:4) "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them]."
They were Coptic Christians, an Egyptian sect of Christianity especially hated by Muslims for their refusal to convert to Islam. Hossam Armanious had received death threats from Muslims. According to a family friend, one of the threats read, "You'd better stop this bull, or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you."
Sylvia was especially brutalized, apparently due to the tattoo of a Coptic cross on her wrist. The girl's throat was not only slit, but she was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and wrist where she bore the sign of her faith.
It remains to be seen how our news media will deal with this horrific slaying. Will this brutal and sensational crime receive as much coverage as the Laci Peterson murder? Will this terrorist attack be treated with the same awe and fascination as the Kobe Bryant case? Will we have 24/7 legal analysis, breaking news, interviews, investigations, magazine racks filled with pictures of the slain, an absolute media frenzy? Or, will this gruesome event be glossed over, whitewashed and quickly forgotten for reasons of political correctness? ...
She will probably be disbarred too.
"Her grandparents are the Rosenbergs who were executed for giving Stalin the bomb, right? I'm not kidding."
No, that's her buddy, Rachel Meerapol. The Rosenberg's two kids -- both boys -- were adopted by the Meerapol family, who were fellow travelers, and took their name.
Thank you piasa.
This is interesting.
Even my beeber was stuned!!!
I've seen homeless women who were babes next to her!
Bwahahahahaha!
"She transmitted his fatwas, including those demanding the brutal murder of Americans, even children:
Government investigators searching Stewart's law offices found a draft of the sheikh's fatwa that bin Laden later said inspired him.[14] In it, Abdel Rahman enjoined his fellow Muslims everywhere to kill Americans, even children, "to treat them with brutality," and to "drown their ships, shoot down their airplanes, kill them on earth, in the sea or in the sky, kill them everywhere you find them" in order to obtain his release from U.S. prison.[15]"
Civil rights attorney my a$$.
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