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...Muslims have done this, at least in part, because they were funded by Saudi charities and educated in radical Islamist schools around the world designed by Saudi clerics, as was Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the Saudi American charged last week with plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. Crown Prince Abdullah would have us believe that those days are over, and there is some evidence to support him. The Saudis launched a major campaign to roll up local al-Qaeda cells after terrorists brought the war home to Riyadh, attacking housing compounds and killing...
...dictatorial regime of General Omar al-Bashir continues to wage genocide in Sudan against its own black African population, students at Harvard are not sitting by quietly. Over 700 students, alumni, and faculty are demanding that Harvard’s massive endowment fund stop investing in companies doing business with al-Bashir...
...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...
...LYNNE 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...
Building contractor Omar Nasreddin, 47, says he intends to sit out the vote. Sunni clerics have called for a boycott, while extremists have threatened violence against those who take part. Nasreddin's reluctance stems from a suspicion that the U.S. will rig the vote. "Whoever is elected will immediately sign over Iraqi sovereignty to the U.S.," Nasreddin says, "and keep American troops in Iraq forever." He is so concerned about his fate under a new government that he asks not to be identified by his real name...