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Judge John Koeltl, a Bill Clinton appointee, has allowed Lynne Irene Stewart to go free from prison. Stewart, the 74 year old disbarred attorney was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.
Koeltl sentenced her to 28 months in prison and her felony conviction led to the disbarring when she was found guilty of passing messages from Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as the Blind Sheikh. Rahman, you may recall, is an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, including the bombing of the World Trade Center. His organization, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, was responsible for the Luxor Massacre, which killed 58 tourists and 4 Egyptian policemen on November 17, 1997. In the attack, a 5 year old British child was killed, 4 Japanese couples on their honeymoons, and others from different nations. The killing went on for 45 minutes and the bodies were mutilated, particularly the women. It was brutal and barbaric. (The word barbaric comes from the Barbary Coast where the US Navy fought the Barbary pirates, who, coincidentally, were Muslim.)
Koeltl sentenced her to 28 months in prison and her felony conviction led to the disbarring when she was found guilty of passing messages from Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as the Blind Sheikh. Rahman, you may recall, is an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, including the bombing of the World Trade Center. His organization, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, was responsible for the Luxor Massacre, which killed 58 tourists and 4 Egyptian policemen on November 17, 1997. In the attack, a 5 year old British child was killed, 4 Japanese couples on their honeymoons, and others from different nations. The killing went on for 45 minutes and the bodies were mutilated, particularly the women. It was brutal and barbaric. (The word barbaric comes from the Barbary Coast where the US Navy fought the Barbary pirates, who, coincidentally, were Muslim.)
