Feds’ arrest of lawyer shows US activist link to jihadist terrorism

The arrest of an activist New York lawyer as an alleged element of a jihadist terrorist group illustrates the linkages between Mideast terrorists and American political and legal activists.

Attorney Lynne F. Stewart was arrested earlier this week for providing, in the words of Attorney General John Ashcroft, “material support and resources to the Islamic Group,” a terrorist organization responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Stewart is a veteran left-wing activist in the mold of the late William Kunstler. She shares a Manhattan office with Kunstler protege Stanley Cohen, who is currently in Israel assisting Hamas.

U.S. supporters across the political spectrum have attempted to stave off criticism or investigation by alleging that critics are motivated by racism or anti-Muslim bigotry. Stewart once said that her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of a series of terrorist crimes and whom she allegedly helped to direct further acts of terrorism from his Minnesota prison cell, was victimized because he is Muslim.

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