Word: qubilah
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Malcolm X's daughter Qubilah Shabazz pleaded not guilty to charges that she plotted to have Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan killed. Meanwhile, Farrakhan publicly echoed the claim of Shabazz's lawyers that the case was a setup by the government...
Their doubts quickly settled on the government's informant. According to lawyers close to the defense, he is none other than Qubilah's school friend Michael Fitzpatrick, whose life since those days has followed a singular course. In 1977 the 17-year-old was arrested in the bombing of a Soviet bookstore. Subsequently, according to court documents, he turned government informer and betrayed co-conspirators in a second attempted bombing: the Associated Press quoted a former acquaintance as calling him "a setup artist." The government sent him to Minneapolis as part of the witness- protection program and assigned...
Both parties' comments reflect dire suspicions based in sad history. For decades black radicals -- and especially the Nation -- have appeared prone to paranoia; but events have recurrently proved their fears founded. The FBI's claims about Qubilah Shabazz prompt Turner to recall the '60s and '70s, when "there was a well-orchestrated, high-priority program operating from the FBI to destabilize black organizations that were involved in the civil-rights movement and African-American liberation struggle. This was to be done by planting agent provocateurs, providing false documents and sending bogus letters to the heads of various organizations that would...
INVESTIGATION: Mourning Becomes Qubilah...
Capping a seven-month FBI investigation, federal prosecutors in Minnesota indicted Qubilah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's daughters, charging her with attempting to hire a hit man to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Although prosecutors would not publicly speculate on a motive, Shabazz's family is known to suspect Farrakhan of having been involved in Malcolm X's assassination 30 years ago when the two men were rivals. Shabazz's lawyer said his client had been lured and set up by the would-be hit man, whom he described as a childhood friend of Shabazz...