It may even be that his protectors had sympathy for Mr bin Laden and his views.
The first case in 1998 rallied huge public sympathy for Mr Anwar.
Before the hearing began Asda expressed its sympathy for Mr Farr's family.
Of course, while I have some sympathy for Mr. Buiter, I do have a hard time imagining him hunched over his PC entering receipts into Quickbooks.
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Alison Cox started Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) in 1995 and has expressed her sympathy for Mr O'Donnell's family, including his wife and four children.
During the hearing she was asked whether she had any sympathy for Mr Kennedy, who is suing the Metropolitan Police claiming he had been traumatised by what had happened.
"I have every sympathy for Mr Messham and for the many other young people who were sexually abused when they were residents of the children's home in Wrexham, " said Lord McAlpine.
But the early sympathy for Mr Hashmi's plight expressed by parliament's speaker swiftly evaporated when the prime minister, Zafarullah Jamali, issued a warning that anyone who tried to give the army a bad name would meet the same fate.
The campaign even prompted an editorial in the Global Times, a tabloid published by the Communist Party mouthpiece newspaper People's Daily, that expressed guarded sympathy for Mr. Chen's case while suggesting he was the victim of local officials run amok.
Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.
While Mr Robinson has sympathy for those who might have been duped by such scams, a little bit of thought could prevent them being victims in future.
Moreover, despite the outpouring of sympathy in Europe for America after September 2001, Mr Bush's country now finds itself more resented by its main allies than ever before.
Yet before long it is hard to feel much sympathy for anybody involved save the judge, Mr Justice Bell, refereeing two mind-numbing years of argument about rain forests, litter, the cooking temperature of hamburgers, exploited hamburger flippers and so forth.
Attempts by state-run newspapers to discredit America's ambassador to China, Gary Locke, for helping Mr Chen have also aroused little sympathy.
"I'm not here for the sympathy or the pat on the back, " Mr Heslin told a panel of senators.
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The danger to Mr Rajapaksa does not stem from Sinhalese voters' sympathy for foreign criticism of him.
One might feel more sympathy for the establishment press if it devoted more space to the likes of Mr Aktan.
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The upright Mr Balladur can hardly, they say, be accused of sympathy for the Front: only this spring, after a regional election, he refused to take the presidency of the Ile de France region (which surrounds Paris) if that meant accepting votes from Fronters.
Oddly, the rhetoric matched that of Saddam Hussein, a leader for whom Mr Qaradawi, and most other Muslim scholars, have little sympathy except as a symbol.
This week, as Enron's former finance chief, Andrew Fastow, and his wife, Lea, struck a plea bargain with prosecutors that will see Mr Fastow get a ten-year sentence, there were stirrings of sympathy for the couple.
Mr Hu is trying to strengthen the party's legitimacy by stressing its sympathy for the disadvantaged.
Mr. President, for me this is also an opportunity to express my sympathy, my condolences, to all of the American families for whom members of their families were killed, injured in Haiti during this earthquake.
Summing up the prosecution case, Mr Edis urged the jury of five women and seven men not to be swayed by sympathy for Ms Pryce.
But Mr Kirchner had little to gain by raising the stakes, especially at Easter and with sympathy for the Church aroused by the pope's Calvary.
On the other hand, Mr McCain seems to reject Mr Obama's plan to raise fuel-economy standards for vehicles out of traditional Republican sympathy for big business.
Mr Bush gave a rare television interview to ABC News this week, in which he expressed sympathy for the victims of the recession and lamented intelligence failures before the Iraq war.
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He seems to have had a natural, genuine and lifelong sympathy for the disadvantaged, but was not always a doctrinaire socialist: as Harold Wilson's postmaster general the young Mr Benn was preoccupied mainly with trying (he failed) to remove the queen's head from postage stamps.
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