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...daughter, who is charged with plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, today testified that the government promised him $45,000 to act as an informant in the case. Michael Fitzpatrick's testimony provided fresh ammunition for defense attorney William Kunstler, who contends defendant Qubilah Shabazz was entrapped by the informant. Fitzpatrick, who allegedly was hired by Shabazz to kill Farrakhan, said during a pretrial hearing that he has received $34,000 for secretly recording telephone conversations with Shabazz and expects to get $11,000 more. Shabazz said during the taped conversations that she believed Farrakhan was involved...
Malcom X's daughter told a childhood friend to proceed with plans to assassinate Louis Farrakhan because she was afraid the Nation of Islam leader was going to have her mother killed, according to government transcripts of a wiretapped phone conversation. Qubilah Shabazz, charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill Farrakhan, believed her mother was at risk because she had claimed Farrakhan was involved in Malcolm X's 1965 assasination, prosecutors charged in court papers. "I lost my father and I'm risking losing my mother," Shabazz told government informant Michael Fitzpatrick, according to the prosecution...
...chief evidence against Shabazz, who has pleaded not guilty, is a statement she signed for FBI agents and a stack of 20 audiotapes of conversations between her and Fitzpatrick. There is also a 50- min. videotape that Fitzpatrick made at a Minneapolis-area motel room where he had set up a hidden camera. But the Minneapolis Star Tribune, quoting an unnamed federal official close to the case, says that on the videotape Fitzpatrick does most of the talking, encouraging Shabazz to go ahead with the plot while she objects that innocent people might be killed or that Farrakhan supporters might...
Whether he's a valuable informer or an agent provocateur, Fitzpatrick has a way of popping up wherever a fuse is burning. As a teenager at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where Shabazz was also a student, Fitzpatrick, the son of an Irish union organizer and a Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group...
Some friends of Shabazz's--a onetime Princeton student and a single mother who has worked as a waitress and a telemarketer--say that last year, after getting back in touch with Fitzpatrick, she moved to Minneapolis in September expecting to marry him. Depending on how her case goes--the trial is set for March--she could be living soon in a prison cell. Depending on how his drug case goes, so could he. Then again, if she goes to jail, perhaps he won't. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/ New York, Wendy Cole/Minneapolis and Elaine Shannon/Washington