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A New York jury found Lynne Stewart--the radical lawyer accused of helping her terrorist client, "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with his Islamist followers from prison--guilty on all of the counts against her, including conspiring to provide and providing material support to terrorists.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* A New York jury found Lynne Stewart--the radical lawyer accused of helping her terrorist client, "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with his Islamist followers from prison--guilty on all of the counts against her, including conspiring to provide and providing material support to terrorists. Stewart had found a kindred soul in Rahman, both personally and to an extent politically, and she took her trademark activist lawyering a step too far in his ...

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