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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...
...Scouts to tell you much about the seedier corners that law enforcement needs to poke into. Even so, there may not be many government informants more rough-edged than Michael Fitzpatrick. Convicted bomber, alleged coke user, he is also the man whose accusations led to the arrest of Qubilah Shabazz, a daughter of Malcolm X, two weeks ago. In an increasingly controversial case, Fitzpatrick's credibility has become central to the government's charge that she tried to hire a hit man to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
Prosecutors say Fitzpatrick, 34, tipped off an FBI agent and agreed to inform on Shabazz last July after she let him in on her desire to kill Farrakhan, a man suspected by many--including Malcolm's widow Betty--of having something to do with her father's 1965 assassination. Friends of Shabazz's say Fitzpatrick, who was arrested for cocaine possession in late 1993, lured her into planning a crime so he could offer her up to prosecutors in return for leniency on the drug charge...
...exclusive interview with Time, FBI director Louis Freeh insisted that his bureau took pains to ensure that Fitzpatrick did not push Shabazz into a crime. Throughout the seven-month investigation, he says, Fitzpatrick's FBI handlers were overseen by bureau supervisors and the U.S. Attorney's office, whose reports were sent East for further review. Freeh said he was ``aware'' of the investigation though he ``did not review all the details.'' Nevertheless, ``I'm satisfied that we were well within...
...left many African Americans skeptical, that may not be enough--especially given the bureau's targeting of civil-rights leaders in the 1960s and the more recent harassment and discrimination lawsuits brought by minority agents. Farrakhan, for one, told a crowd of cheering supporters in Chicago last week that Shabazz was a victim of ``wicked machinations'' and that the FBI was trying to turn prominent African Americans against one another...