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*   Federal officials in Washington and Minneapolis say Ms. Shabazz was
*   'obsessed' with killing Mr. Farrakhan, and they had enough on her to
*   put her away for 90 years.
*   
*   Mr. Fitzpatrick prodded her: "I'm willing to do whatever you want me to
*   do, this feels righteous." Ms. Shabazz replied "I don't really know
*   what you're asking me." Mr. Fitzpatrick later told her "I'm just going
*   to proceed."

Qubilah Shabazz was 4 when she saw her father die in a hail of bullets in
1965. She has been a trouble woman ever since.

*   "...Shabazz...", The New York Times, June 8 1997 (front page)
*
*   In telephone conversations taped by Federal prosecutors, Ms. Shabazz
*   acknowledged she had psychological problems and had spent time at Bellevue.

Her mother long asserted  Mr. Farrakhan played a role in the death of her
husband. Three members of Mr. Farrakhan's Nation of Islam were convicted.


And just what was so extraordinarily vile about this case?

Its purpose was to tear the black community apart.

Mr. Farrakhan, no fool when it comes to manipulation, joined in her defense.

And: Mr. Fitzpatrick had been a high school classmate of Qubilah Shabazz.

In courting her lifetime of anger at Mr. Farrakhan, he also courted her.

Love.

"A vile and evil seducer," said William Kunstler to the court.

He had proposed to her.

*   "Always the Violence", The New York Times, by Bob Herbert, June 9