Make no mistake: Sattar the elder is not some innocent Muslim caught up in a wave of “islamophobia.” He was a co-defendant in the trial of radical lawyer Lynne Stewart. Stewart used the cloak of her “lawyer privileges” to circumvent prison safeguards restricting the Blind Sheik’s ability to communicate with anyone to protect “against the risk of death or serious bodily injury that might otherwise result” (see U.S. v Sattar, et al. (S.D.N.Y. 2002)) after the Sheik’s conviction for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Sattar, a paralegal for Stewart during the 1993 bombing trial, was a leader of the Egyptian “Islamic Group” (a/k/a “Gama’a al-Islamiyya“. Sattar’s role as an active jihadist cannot be overlooked. Quoting directly from the indictment: