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...Betty Shabazz thought it was her business. A family friend explains that she has always believed the Nation killed Malcolm, while the FBI declined to interfere. Asked on a WNBC television program whether Farrakhan was involved, she answered, "Yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it." In June, Farrakhan and Shabazz appeared on the same stage at a leadership summit in Baltimore; but they did not exchange words, and Shabazz's remarks were noticeably cold. Asked recently whether she stood by her WNBC statement, she replied that she had not changed...
...former acquaintance as calling him "a setup artist." The government sent him to Minneapolis as part of the witness- protection program and assigned him a new name, under which he was arrested in a cocaine bust. His hearing, as it happens, was scheduled, then postponed, the day before Shabazz's murder-conspiracy arraignment. Shabazz's lawyer, Scott Tilsen, has hinted that Fitzpatrick entrapped her in order to re- establish credit with his understandably disenchanted federal patrons. "She was an easy target," says Tilsen. "If your mother and father had been murdered, and somebody came to you and enticed -- cajoled...
...Betty Shabazz, who was in Atlanta last weekend to help celebrate Martin ! Luther King Day, said, "It is unfortunate that anyone would do that to a young woman, and it says how quick they are and how they will do anything to get their political ends." James Turner, a Shabazz family friend and national chairman of the Malcolm X Commemoration Commission, confides that Shabazz is "outraged" at the charges against her daughter. Another friend adds that she is concerned about possible retaliation by Farrakhan. But Farrakhan seems otherwise inclined. A spokesperson for the Minister said on Thursday that "his heart...
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...
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...