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Coastal Carolina snapped a 1-1 tie with three runs in the seventh inning to knock off Harvard, 4-1, in the Crimson's final game at the Buzz Classic in Atlanta...
...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 had finally made peace with the world...
...independent black political organization 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...
CHARGED. JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN, 56, Muslim cleric and onetime Black Panther formerly known as H. Rap Brown; with murder and aggravated battery after he allegedly shot at two sheriff's deputies, one of whom died of his wounds; in Atlanta. The officers were trying to serve Al-Amin with an arrest warrant. He is being sought nationwide...