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Lynn Stewart, the American lawyer representing Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd al- Rahmān, currently jailed in the U.S. on terror charges, received 28 months in jail for aiding terrorists.
A US federal judge postponed the case of Lin Stewart, lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman, until January 12, 2004. Stewart is accused of helping Abdel Rahman to contact leaders of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya in Egypt.
Legal documents pertaining the latest court session in the trial of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal assistant of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian banned group of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya revealed a strong security cooperation between the US’s FBI and UK’s Scotland Yard obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat...
The USA accused the lawyer of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, his translator, his assistant and the director of the Islamic Media Observatory in London of introducing financial aids to a terrorist group. Usama Rushdi of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya said that filing such a charge against those four is one...
An American judge allowed yesterday a fatwa of “the international front against Jews and the Crusades” announced by Ben Laden in 1998 to be included among the evidence directed against civil rights lawyer Lyn Stewart [Lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman] and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal deputy of the...
Since issuing the non-violence initiative, the Gama’at Al-Islamya is living in a state of disputes and division between two groups. The first group, lead by Mustafa Hamza, was the one behind issuing the non-violence initiative, in March of last year. The other group, headed by Rifai’ Taha,...
Political circles explained that the rumor about sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the spiritual leader of Al-Gamaa’t Al-Islamya, withdrawing his support for the no-violence initiative is an attempt to blackmail the Egyptian officials.
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