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* 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 1997
*
* Percy Sutton, a close friend of the Shabazz family for more then three
* decades, said "It was so sad. This little kid [Qubilah's son Malcolm, 10]
* he ended up feeling guilty because he tried to persuade his mother to
* marry this guy [Fitzpatrick told the son about his marriage proposal].
* The guy told him 'We'll have our own house.' And Malcolm got all excited
* and he said, 'I'll have my own bedroo