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...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...
...looked less clear. The man expected to be the prosecution's key witness seemed to be more impeachable, at least on character, than anything yet seen at the O.J. Simpson trial. And the state's allegations had achieved what the passage of years had failed to do -- drawn the Shabazz family and Farrakhan into apparent agreement on at least one belief: that the Federal Government so dislikes black activists that it will pursue them recklessly unto the second generation...
...party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern of holes over his heart." For insurance, the killers shot him again with...
...They never actually saw what happened," Betty Shabazz told reporters of her children. At the first shot, she threw them under a chair and herself on top of 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...
...likely to forget it. Betty Shabazz has said, "My children were reared on a 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...