IP: Feds say New York terrorist lawyer helped him plot

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Hiawatha Bray" <watha@monitortan.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:50:04 -0400
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Feds say New York terrorist lawyer helped him plot

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Four people, including an American attorney who represents
a convicted terrorist, were indicted and charged with providing material
support and resources to an Islamic terrorist group, Attorney General John
Ashcroft announced Tuesday.

Ashcroft said the four helped Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman "direct" terrorist
activity from his prison cell.

Rahman was the lead defendant among 10 men convicted in 1995 for plotting to
blow up New York City landmarks.

The four people indicted Tuesday were attorney Lynne Stewart; Ahmed Abdel
Sattar, described as a Staten Island resident and a "surrogate" for Rahman;
Yassir Al-Sirri, the former head of the London-based Islamic Observation
Center and currently in custody in Britain; and Mohammed Yousry, identified
as an Arabic language translator.



http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/09/inv.terror.indictment/index.html

If this story holds up, it's a vindication of Ashcroft's decision to listen
in on conversations between suspected terrorists and their lawyers.


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