Word: aminations
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...Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie have told a Scottish court they're not responsible for the atrocity - and even if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima are convicted, few observers and family members of the victims believe that the real author of the crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various...
When I saw him again five years ago, he seemed to have put the madness of the '60s behind him. He had converted to Islam while serving time in prison for attempted robbery and had changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. In 1981 he set up a mosque in an ethnically mixed section of Atlanta. He was dignified and extremely reserved--until a pack of neighborhood kids bustled in to buy candy at the nearby convenience store he operates. Their giggled response to his gruff teasing made it obvious that they adored him. I thought Al-Amin...
...that chose a black panther as its symbol. (He later became minister of justice for Huey Newton's Black Panther Party, a totally separate organization.) The charge: murder and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of two sheriff's deputies in Atlanta who had tried to arrest Al-Amin for failing to appear in court to face relatively minor charges. It seemed like something the rabble rouser H. Rap Brown would do, not the gray-bearded cleric, now 56, whom I had watched leading his flock in prayer...
There is something wrong with this picture. Cops in Atlanta say Al-Amin's devout image is a ruse. Federal agents have suspected him of gunrunning since 1994, when two members of his congregation were convicted of illegally shipping nearly 1,000 pistols to a Muslim group in New York City, but they have never obtained enough evidence to charge him. A year later, Al-Amin was accused of shooting a 23-year-old Atlanta man, but the charges were dropped after the victim claimed police had pressured him into falsely naming Al-Amin as the shooter. Such brushes with...
...generation ago, Al-Amin made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list by preaching the violent overthrow of the all-white power structure in places like Lowndes County. But by last week, when he was arrested by a deputy who is black--as are the sheriff of Lowndes County, the mayor and police chief of Atlanta and the two deputies he allegedly shot--that old system had been swept away, not by force but through patient protest and voting. How ironic that the heirs of the nonviolent revolution he walked away from now hold his fate in their hands...