NEW YORK -- A prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday that the terrorism case against a Manhattan lawyer and two others was essentially about "a jailbreak" in which they helped an imprisoned terrorist feed deadly messages to followers.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Dember in his closing argument painted all three defendants with the same brush, saying they let blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with overseas terrorists despite prison rules imposed to isolate him.
He asked the jury to convict attorney Lynne Stewart, U.S. postal employee Ahmed Abdel Sattar and Arabic translator Mohamed Yousry in a conspiracy to overcome the government's effort to silence the still "powerful and influential" sheik.
The three defendants enabled "a jailbreak," Dember said.
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