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...daughter of Malcolm X pleaded not guilty to federal charges ofplotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhanin court in St. Paul today. Qubilah Shabazz was accompanied by her attorney, William Kunstler. If convicted, she faces up to 90 years in prison and $2.25 million in fines. Shabazz's appearance came a day after Farrakhan, in a Chicago speech, publicly blasted the government for framing her and reviving "the old false filthy propaganda campaign" against...
...attorney for Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X who was charged yesterday with plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, says his client was lured into the scheme by a childhood friend. A source close to the family of Malcolm X told TIME senior correspondent Jack White that the friend is Michael Fitzpatrick, now reportedly living under the witness protection program in St. Paul after botching a bombing attempt in New York City in 1978. Fitzpatrick and Shabazz were high school pals who remained close over the years, the source told White. At a Chicago news conference...
...daughter of slain black leader Malcolm X was indicted in Minneapolis today in an alleged plot to kill her father's old rival, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. Qubilah Shabazz, 34, who was four years old when she saw her father gunned down nearly 30 years ago, was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill Farrakhan, whom her family has long suspected of having played a role in Malcolm's death. Shabazz, who was released on a $10,000 bond, turned herself in after a seven-month FBI investigation. If convicted, she could be sentenced...
TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe, who has reported extensively on Farrakhan, says that while the development is "incredible," the alleged plot's motive is obvious. Last summer, Malcolm's widow, Betty Shabazz, said publicly what she has always believed: that Farrakhan, a high lieutenant in the group at the time, was directly responsible for her husband's assassination. (Farrakhan has denied this, but admitted that members of the Nation of Islam - who were convicted of the murder -- might have taken his inflammatory rhetoric against Malcolm literally.) "That wound is still very much open," Monroe says...
...French about-face, which was welcomed by the U.S. but received only a cool stare from British Defense Minister Malcolm Rifkind, reflects the schizophrenia at the core of the West's response to the Balkan war. Unable to choose between mounting a more muscular response and calling off the whole show, the allies' simultaneous pursuit of both alternatives leaves them hamstrung. On one hand they fear that a more assertive approach in Bosnia is likely to entangle them more deeply in the war. Yet admitting defeat and pulling out would not only humiliate NATO but also allow the conflict...