A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison.She probably deserved life in prison turning big rocks into small rocks. Instead she got a slap on the wrist.
Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of helping her imprisoned client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, to contact the Islamic Group, which is listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
Prosecutors said messages Stewart passed on for Abdel-Rahman could have ignited violence in Egypt. The sheikh was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets in a plot prosecutors said included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Why Terrorism Cannot Be Treated as a Criminal Act
This is why you try those suspected of terrorism in military tribunals and not criminal courts:
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