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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (32803)6/30/2004 7:51:08 PM
From: lorneRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
Now this has got to piss off anyone republican or democrat.

SHEIK IS TEA-TOTALLY DERANGED
By HEIDI SINGER
nypost.com

June 30, 2004 -- The blind sheik who plotted to blow up New York City landmarks has been whining about the brand of tea he's forced to endure in prison, the prosecutor who put him away testified yesterday.
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman complained often about the way he was treated in prison — demanding either Tetley or Lipton tea, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said. He couldn't recall which of those two brands the blind cleric favored.

The sheik even threatened to eat M&Ms or stop taking insulin for his diabetes if he didn't get his teabag of choice, Fitzgerald said.

After Abdel-Rahman went to prison in 1996, the prosecutor described his increasing concern about the sheik's followers and their reaction to his allegedly shoddy treatment. In 1997, he read in a newspaper that some of the sheik's faithful threatened to kill President Clinton in response to his treatment. So Fitzgerald said he bent over backwards to ensure the radical cleric was being treated fairly.

"I was concerned that if he died, people would be blamed — that brought my antennae up," he told a Manhattan federal jury, during the trial of the sheik's lawyer, Lynne Stewart. She is accused of helping him pass dangerous and "inciteful" messages to his terrorist followers.

But the old man was sneaky. Another of the sheik's prison plots was to exaggerate his health ailments, the prosecutor said.
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