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'Blind Sheikh' Near Death; FBI Issues Terror Warning (JUST BREAKING)
FOX News ^ | 12/14/06

Posted on 12/14/2006 10:24:46 AM PST by areafiftyone

Edited on 12/14/2006 10:34:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

'Blind Sheikh' Near Death; FBI Issues Terror Warning

FBI Issues Warning to Police as Terrorist's Health Fails

The FBI has sent a bulletin to state and local law enforcement warning of possible terrorist reprisals as the health of an incarcerated terror mastermind fails.

, the alleged architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has called for revenge should he die in U.S. custody.

Last week, the blind sheik was given blood transfusions at a medical facility after spitting up blood in his prison cell.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blindsheikh; bringiton; cameljockeyssuck; curseonhisfamily; diealready; diescreaming; filthyswine; gostraighttohell; helliswaiting; hopeitspainful; islamisevil; myturbanisdirty; rockthecasbah; sandnigssaywhat; sheikhdontlikeit; wot
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To: brownsfan

"Cover him in pig blood.."

No! Pig blood is used in good bloodwurst.


161 posted on 12/14/2006 11:50:10 AM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: ASA Vet
kind of like

Stupid Liberals

162 posted on 12/14/2006 11:53:33 AM PST by txroadkill
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To: areafiftyone
Here's a preview of the 72 virgins he is about to get.

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Probably not what he was hoping for.

163 posted on 12/14/2006 11:54:43 AM PST by txroadkill
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To: areafiftyone

Lawyer sentenced to jail for aiding blind sheik




A firebrand civil rights lawyer who has defended Black Panthers and anti-war radicals was sentenced Monday to nearly 2 1/2 years in prison - far less than the 30 years prosecutors wanted - for helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.

Lynne Stewart, 67, smiled, cried and hugged supporters after U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl pronounced the sentence of 28 months.

The judge said Stewart was guilty of smuggling messages between her client and his followers that could have "potentially lethal consequences." He called the crimes "extraordinarily severe criminal conduct."

But in departing from federal guidelines that called for 30 years behind bars, he cited Stewart's more than three decades of dedication to poor, disadvantaged and unpopular clients.

"Ms. Stewart performed a public service, not only to her clients, but to the nation," Koeltl said.

The judge said Stewart could remain free while she appeals, a process that could take more than a year.

Stewart was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and her lawyer Elizabeth Fink had warned in a plea to the judge: "If you send her to prison, she's going to die. It's as simple as that."

Outside court, Stewart said she thought the sentence was "a victory for doing good work all one's life." She added: "You get time off for good behavior usually at the end of your prison term. I got it at the beginning."

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia had no immediate comment.

Stewart has represented Black Panthers, leaders of the 1960s student activist group Weather Underground, a former mob hit man and a man accused of trying to kill nine police officers.

Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists. She had released a statement issused by one of her clients, Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind sheik sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt's president.

Prosecutors have called the case a major victory in the war on terrorism. They said Stewart and other defendants carried messages between the sheik and top members of an Egypt-based terrorist organization, helping spread Abdel-Rahman's call to kill those who did not subscribe to his extremist interpretation of Islamic law.

Stewart was arrested six months after the Sept. 11 attacks, along with Mohamed Yousry, an Arabic interpreter, and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, a U.S. postal worker.

Yousry was sentenced to one year and eight months behind bars, while Sattar received 24 years in prison Monday.

Convicted of conspiracy to kill and kidnap people in a foreign country, Sattar could have gotten a life sentence. But the judge said no one was killed or injured, and he cited Sattar's lack of previous crimes and his restrictive prison conditions.

In a letter to the judge, Stewart proclaimed: "I am not a traitor." She said she did not intentionally enter into any conspiracy to help a terrorist organization.

"The end of my career truly is like a sword in my side," Stewart said at her sentencing. "Permit me to live out the rest of my life productively, lovingly, righteously."

In court papers, prosecutors said Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group, deserves to be severely punished."

Earlier, about 150 Stewart supporters who could not get inside the filled-to-capacity courtroom stood outside the courthouse, chanting "Free Lynne, Free Lynne."

"It's not just Lynne Stewart who is a victim; it's the Bill of Rights that's the victim," said Al Dorfman, 72, a retired lawyer.

About 200 more supporters jammed the halls outside the courtroom.


By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Writer
Associated Press writer Pat Milton and AP Radio correspondent Warren Levinson contributed to this report.




164 posted on 12/14/2006 11:55:33 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: AppyPappy

You're correct.


165 posted on 12/14/2006 11:57:45 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Txsleuth

How would the terrorists know he was ill, unless we
released it? Color me dumb.


166 posted on 12/14/2006 11:59:19 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
the beets had some cataracts....

Hugh went accusing Donna Mills,
The Mexican rubber banding
On the Gatorade molehill...

167 posted on 12/14/2006 12:00:22 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (An easy 10-team playoff based on the BCS bowls can be implemented by next year. See my homepage.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Are they worried that Katie Couric will do something rash?



Katie's reaction to the news of his illness.
168 posted on 12/14/2006 12:02:06 PM PST by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: areafiftyone

He soon will be swimming in the lake of eternal fire with Saddam's sons Uday and Kusay and Zarqwi. Stoke the flames Satan he's on his way.


169 posted on 12/14/2006 12:04:34 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: areafiftyone

Nuke the terrorists.


170 posted on 12/14/2006 12:05:03 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: areafiftyone

Why wasn't he 'shot while trying to escape' years ago?


171 posted on 12/14/2006 12:05:40 PM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: areafiftyone

Get this scumbag out if my state!! Preferably in a box!


172 posted on 12/14/2006 12:08:08 PM PST by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas , Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: headstamp

But U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Tracy Billingsley said Rahman's condition has stabilized, and he has since been moved back to prison.

"His condition has improved," Billingsley said. Officials said the bulletin served merely as a reminder that Rahman had called for retaliation by terror sympathizers if he died in prison. It cited a May 1998 press conference where al-Qaida members distributed his last will and testament, in which Rahman pleaded for followers to "extract the most violent revenge" should he die in U.S. custody.

Sounds like he will be around and isn't going today , darn it.


173 posted on 12/14/2006 12:11:23 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: areafiftyone

Just another fake "holy man" running his pie hole.


174 posted on 12/14/2006 12:17:33 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: STARWISE

You know the MSM would never keep anything like this a secret..especially since they are probably hoping we are attacked again.


175 posted on 12/14/2006 12:19:04 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Yes that really would be lucky.


176 posted on 12/14/2006 12:27:24 PM PST by dc-zoo
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To: areafiftyone

How Con-VEEEEN-yent, with the Christmas (yup, I said CHRISTMAS) holiday coming up. Things might get a little rocky.


177 posted on 12/14/2006 12:41:02 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (Don't let reality ruin your day.)
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To: richardtavor

If he does get virgins, they will all look like Miss Piggy and Janet Reno and Maddie Halfbright and Helen Thomas and Hitlery and Pelosi


179 posted on 12/14/2006 1:05:14 PM PST by unkus
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To: areafiftyone

Hopefully his 72 virgins are all Helen Thomas Clones...

Oh damn thats right it don't matter cause he's blind...


180 posted on 12/14/2006 1:07:33 PM PST by tomnbeverly (RATS 2008 platform is all about the HOPE!!)
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