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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62498-2004Jun22.html?
Lawyer's Terrorism Trial Opens in NY
(Washington Post) A federal prosecutor laced into prominent defense lawyer Lynne Stewart and two co-defendants as their trial opened Tuesday, arguing that they had supported a terrorist conspiracy aimed at kidnapping and killing innocent people. The defendants are accused of helping Omar Abdel Rahman, the imprisoned blind cleric convicted of terrorism charges in 1995, to send orders to followers in Egypt. In one such message in 2000, Rahman withdrew his support for a cease-fire with the Egyptian government. Stewart is the first defense lawyer in a terrorism case to face federal charges of conspiring to support terrorism.