Word: abdelal
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...Prime Minister is currently Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leader of the Shiite Islamist Dawa party. Jaafari is the favorite to win the nomination of the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance list, assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. His key rival for the job, economist Adel Abdel Mahdi of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), agreed to take himself out of the running. In exchange for backing the Dawa man, SCIRI will likely get a candidate of its own choosing into one of two vice presidencies, and also land a couple of plum cabinet...
...most grievous crime of all seems to have been her willingness to defend unpopular clients. Her list of clientele includes a Mafia hit man, a man accused of trying to kill police officers, and a blind Egyptian sheikh convicted of terrorist activities—Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. It is on his account that she has been accused and convicted of aiding terrorism...
...Stewart contacted a reporter in Cairo to whom she communicated a message from Abdel Rahman. It is true that she signed a form stating she would not pass along any messages from Abdel Rahman. But she did not believe (and she still does not) that she was communicating any messages from Abdel Rahman to his supporters in Egypt. To Stewart, her actions were a method by which she could convey her client’s political views. This is, admittedly, a very thin and tenuous line that Stewart has tried to walk on; the government is right to prosecute...
...STEWART, 65, veteran civil rights lawyer and defender of accused terrorists and Mob turncoats, of providing material support to terrorists, perjury and defrauding the U.S. govern-ment; in New York City. For more than 10 years, Stewart was defense counsel for Egyp-tian cleric and convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. Prosecutors argued that Stewart acted as a conduit through which Sheik Rahman communicated with his followers. Stewart claimed the gov-ernment's videotaping of her conversations with her client violated attorney-client privilege...
...Allawi's finance minister, Adel Abdel-Mahdi, who is considered a candidate for prime minister on the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance list says that if his coalition, as expected, wins a dominant share of the vote, the best Allawi can hope for is to remain a cabinet minister. Note to readers: Even once the final election results are known, which may be a week or more from Sunday, Allawi's fate will be far from clear. The new government will be created through a series of steps that begins with the new National Assembly appointing a three-person presidential council...