Terrorists' Privilege

If you're an accused Mideast terrorist, you have the
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The devastated military building in Saudi Arabia.

I

mmigration attorney Michael
Wildes has emerged as the
lawyer for Hani El-Sayegh, the
Saudi national who federal au-
thorities believe has information
on last summer's bombing of a
U.S. military complex in Saudi
Arabia that killed 19 Air Force
personnel and injured 500. El-
Sayegh was deported recently
from Canada to the United
States.
William Kunstler, Stanley Co-
hen and Eric Sears are among
the Jewish attorneys who of late
have taken Arab clients either ac-
cused of terrorist acts or moti-
vated by events in the Middle
East.
But Wildes, an Orthodox Jew
from Queens, is no radical Kun-
stler-type. A former federal pros-
ecutor, Wildes is a harsh critic of
Saudi Arabia who defended a
prominent dissident diplomat
from that country two years ago.
El-Sayegh, 28, became his client
after the ex-diplomat, who se-
cured asylum with Wildes' aid,
called him on El-Sayegh's behalf.
Wildes said "it would be short-
sighted to dismiss him from my
office because of his ethnic back-
ground." He agreed to take the

case, without a fee, because "I felt
it was possible to protect his le-
gal interests and provide a wealth
of information to the U.S. intelli-
gence community."
El-Sayegh, Wildes claims, "has
very good, very sensitive infor-
mation" on the attack and on the
involvement of Iranian Revolu-
tionary Guards. El-Sayegh was
an intimate functionary in the
guards who trained with them in
Iran and knew their leaders and
plans well, the attorney said.
Congressional leaders have
called for military retaliation
against Iran if solid information
emerges linking that country to
the attack on the Khobar Towers.
El-Sayegh could face 20 years
if convicted in a separate terror-
ist scheme that never came off.
But he could receive much less in
a plea bargain that provides the
government with information on
the Khobar Towers attack.
Meanwhile, Wildes is being
protected by police guards. And
his rabbi is on call for special dis-
pensation allowing him to work
on the case during the Sabbath,
if necessary, in order to protect
lives.

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