Word: qubilah
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...federal prosecutor in Minnesota suggested that it could not -- that, in the words of one little girl's father, chickens will come home to + roost, that violence must beget violence, that the world is a tragedy in a continuous loop. Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug charged on Thursday that Qubilah Shabazz, 34, had for seven months negotiated with a hit man for a murder and had in fact moved to Minnesota to make a down payment on the crime. Her alleged target: Louis Farrakhan, the bitter rival of her father Malcolm X, who was murdered...
...them. But her oldest daughter Attallah contradicted that in interviews of her own: "She's yelling, 'That's my husband they're killing!' And a kid wants to look and see. Her husband means it's my father. So I keep looking. I see the men. I see it." Qubilah, the second eldest, presumably...
...picture of Daddy. A lot of people have Daddy at home. When they prayed that God bless them and everybody, Daddy was part of everything." The mother hid her copies of the posthumously published Autobiography of Malcolm X because they showed his corpse, but Attallah says she and Qubilah found them. Fareed Nu'man, a researcher with the American Muslim Council in Washington, says Qubilah "had the roughest time" of all the Shabazz daughters coping with their father's loss. Mary Ryan, a Shabazz neighbor, agrees, adding "She was kind of a lonesome child, but friendly...
...rigorous haven for the children of diplomats, wealthy Manhattanites and scholarship students. There she met a white boy named Michael Fitzpatrick, whom a contemporary recalls as "a wild, wild kid" and who would pop up in her life later. Although some of her sisters attained a measure of celebrity, Qubilah lived out of the public eye. She had a child, now a teenager, whom she named Malcolm. She lived several years in France, reportedly working as a journalist...
...then, last October, she moved to an inner-city neighborhood in Minneapolis. The name next to her buzzer gave no hint of her paternity -- it read simply Qubilah. ("Really a fabulous person," says her building's owner, Mansoor Alyeshmerni. "Quiet and intelligent, very respectful.") But according to U.S. Attorney Lillehaug, she came to Minnesota with a purpose. FBI audio- and videotapes, he claims, indicate that she made eight phone calls in July and August to a Minnesota resident contracting the murder of Farrakhan and, upon arrival, she made a down payment on the job. If convicted, she could receive...