[Marxism] Lynne Stewart, Ahmed Sattar, Mohamed Yousry case summaries

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tigar's closing followed an emotional summation by attorney Kenneth
Paul on behalf of Stewart co-defendant Ahmed Abdel Sattar.

Sattar's actions and intentions form the core allegation in the case --
that he was a key player in a conspiracy to kill and kidnap persons
abroad launched with members of the U.S. government-designated terror
organization Islamic Group.

Stewart and a third co-defendant, interpreter Mohamed Yousry, are
accused of providing and concealing material support to Islamic Group
by acting as conduits to the Group's spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel
Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for seditious conspiracy.
. . .
"Easy assumptions about so-called guilt-by-association don't belong
here," Tigar said as he began walking the jury through the elements of
the crimes charged in the indictment. Stewart is also accused of
conspiring to defraud the government and making false statements.
. . .
Paul played a tape of Sattar recorded by the government. The defendant
was talking on the phone with a co-worker one week after the
destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The tape, he argued, revealed a tearful Sattar lamenting the loss of
life, insisting that the attacks on Sept. 11 were "not an act of
Islam."

Upon hearing Sattar's voice on the tape, Paul said, members of the jury
should ask: "Is he the kind of person who revels in violence?"

FULL at
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1104759350966

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