Stewart said that all her high-profile clients shared the distinction of being revolutionaries against unjust systems or were people whose cases expose those injustices . However , unlike most movement lawyers who found communications with prosecuting attorneys to be repugnant , former assistant US Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy found Stewart to be " eminently reasonable and practical " and commented that " when she gave her word on something , she honored it — she never acted as if she thought one was at liberty to be false when dealing with the enemy . " After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing , the FBI began to investigate Omar Abdel-Rahman also known as the Blind Sheikh . The FBI recorded Rahman issuing a fatwa that encouraged acts of violence against US civilian targets , particularly in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area . Rahman was arrested on 24 June 1993 . The targets were the United Nations Headquarters , the Lincoln Tunnel , the Holland Tunnel , the George Washington Bridge , and the FBI 's main New York office at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building . There were also plans to bomb Jewish targets in the city as well as assassinating U.S. Senator Al D'Amato and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Lynne Stewart