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Article: Lawyers want access to suspected al-Qaida member who's son of cleric convicted of bombing plot
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 15, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Defense lawyers in a terrorism case are arguing they should be able
to interview a suspected al-Qaida member who is the son of a sheik
convicted of a 1995 plot to blow up New York landmarks.
The New York Times reported Sunday that a court document shows lawyers
for Ahmed Abdel Sattar want access to Ahmed Abdel Rahman, who was
with al-Qaida in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001, according to a federal
indictment. Rahman has reportedly been held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
since 2001.
Sattar, lawyer Lynne Stewart and an Arabic translator were charged
last year with helping deliver messages from Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.
The sheik, who was Stewart's client, is ...