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Lynne Stewart was convicted today:

Prosecutors said messages Stewart passed on for Abdel-Rahman could have ignited violence in Egypt. The sheikh was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets in a plot prosecutors said included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Stewart, long a defender of the poor and unpopular, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan federal court. Her supporters rallied outside the courthouse chanting and carrying banners.

The civil rights lawyer has defended her actions, saying she was only zealously representing her client.

Tagged as both heroine and radical leftist, Stewart is the only U.S. lawyer to be indicted on terrorism charges. Some observers said the case stemmed from Bush administration efforts to discourage the defense of accused terrorists.

The two years and four months she was sentenced to by a Federal Judge sort of argues against "efforts to discourage the defense of accused terrorists."  What she was convicted of was smuggling messages to and from Shiek Omar and his radical terrorists supporters.  Nothing political about that, except exhibiting an extreme hatred and contempt of Western civilization.