*WAS KHALLID ABDUL MUHAMMAD ASSASSINATED?
For Immediate Release
January 12, 2004
Contact: New Black Panther Party
National Investigation Team
PO Box 4481
Washington DC 20017
Email: [email protected]
Phone (202) 234 1349
Ask for Attorney Malik Z. Shabazz
NBPP Chairman
WEB SITE: WWW.NEWBLACKPANTHER.COM
*MINISTER KHALLID ABDUL MUHAMMAD’S
OFFICIAL DEATH REPORT
* * *
Declassified Public Report #1 1-12-04
Was Dr Khallid Abdul Muhammad assassinated? How did Khallid Muhammad
die? This question has been asked by many since the militant leader of
the New Black Panther Party and the former National Spokesman for
Minister Louis Farrakhan passed on February 17, 2001.
We, the New Black Panther Party investigation team, are offering this
first Death Report to satisfy the legitimate queries of supporters of
Dr
Muhammad. This report is also offered to rebut the half-truths,
misconceptions and even out right lies that have been put forth by
others. This information is declassified and intended for public
consumption and discussion. We affirm that the public has a right to
know.
While lengthy, we emphasize that this ‘Report #1’ is not a final
report.
A 2004 Report entitled “Was Khallid Muhammad Assassinated” will be
presented in detail in the upcoming New Black Panther News Magazine to
be released in February 2004 and in the upcoming book about the life of
Dr. Muhammad called “The Truth Terrorist: Khallid Abdul Muhammad- The
Life Of The Most Radical Black Man in Amerikkka”. Also, this report and
subsequent clarifications and updates will be carried on the Party’s
website at www.Newblackpanther.com <http://www.newblackpanther.com/>.
This investigation is still ongoing and some questions may take years
to
answer. Still to this day, over 30 years later, we are wrangling over
the deaths of Minister Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King and other
revolutionaries. Nevertheless, this report will shed much light, avoid
unnecessary speculation, and give the reader critical information to
draw reasonable conclusions.
One of the reasons that this report has taken time is because it
indicts
certain individuals for certain actions or non-actions and a reasonable
time was allotted for parties to be interviewed. Another reason is that
it takes time for the truth to come out. We may have reasonably looked
at Dr. Muhammad’ s death one way early on, but as strange occurrences
took place we had to look in another direction. We expect some
controversy to erupt from this report and opportunities for any one to
explain of defend themselves will be made. We have taken great care to
avoid slander, defamation and false allegations against anyone. This
report is not politically motivated and not produced to settle any
scores nor hurt anyone- only to find the truth. Interviews were
carefully conducted and our objective findings to date are noted.
We believe this report to be landmark in its character because we as a
people have not properly investigated the deaths of our leaders. Kwame
Ture says the “the CIA gave him cancer” but we have no real report on
his death. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad died in Mercy Hospital in
Chicago and there is some dispute around his circumstances of death,
meaning that a possible inside conspiracy was involved. To date we have
no report on the death of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. We do not mean
to offend those who believe he is physically alive. Even if you believe
he died and rose again we should know if there was a plot to get rid of
him and how it was carried out. Good work has been done on the
assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, and Minister Malcolm X, but
not by their followers. We believe that it is the clear burden of a
leaders followers or organizational members to produce written reports.
This is not to say others can not produce such reports but we should
hear from the organization or followers. Video and audio tapes are
good,
but written reports are far superior for documentation, debate and
historical purposes. Even if a leaders cause of death appear to be
clear on its face, we should file reports because you may find out in the
course of your investigation that it is deeper than what you believe.
Huey P. Newton died of gunshots from an alleged drug dealer, but was it
something deeper and where is the report? Sonny Carson, Emmit Till,
Meadger Evers, and host of leaders have died without reports being
issued. If the enemy can kill our leaders and be comfortable that no
investigation will take place, the enemy will continue his mischief.
Khallid Muhammad told us “If I slip on a bar of soap in the shower,
goddammit, the white man did it!”
*How Did Dr. Khallid Muhammad Die?
Was He Assassinated?
* * *
The question of ‘how did Dr. Khallid Muhammad die?’ is a valid and
legitimate question. For all those who loved our beloved Black Power
General, the pursuit of such question should be of paramount concern
The
ability to offer proof of such love for Dr. Khallid by any person who
loved him would arise the moment that person knew he was in life
threatening condition in an Atlanta area Hospital. We have concluded
that attendance at the Hospital was mandatory for any individual or
organization who loved Dr. Khallid. Unlike in Riverside in 1994 where
Muhammad’s whereabouts were not widely known, it was widely reported in
the media as early as February 14th ,2001 that Muhammad was at
Kennestone Hospital In Marietta Georgia.
Also here, unlike in 1994 security risks to the visitor was not a
factor.
If you were:
a) Concerned about his condition;
b) His possible recovery;
c) The doctors who were treating him;
d) The security around him;
e) His family;
f) His organization and most importantly-
g) Investigating the actual cause of death whether or not this was an
assassination on our leader,
then you would have come directly to the Hospital to get answers to
these critical questions. The knowledge that he was at Kennestone
Hospital in Marietta Georgia was public knowledge. We have the list of
those who bothered to show up, We have the list of those who did not or
refused to show up and have concluded that no excuse whatsoever
suffices
for any true supporter of his from not dropping everything and rushing
to his side in Atlanta and remaining until his expiration. It is well
established that any concerned person who was a friend of Dr. Muhammad
could come to the Hospital, talk to the leader’s family, talk to his
doctors, observe the security and even see Dr Muhammad himself.
*Background on Assassination Attempts against
Dr Khallid Muhammad
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We find that Dr. Khallid Muhammad was a loved and hated man. Muhammad
rebounded after his suspension/isolation from the Nation of Islam in
early 1994 to great popularity and later convened the controversial
Million Youth March in Harlem NY in Sept 1998. Many thought he was
finished after the Marcher’s notorious clash with NYC police, but
Muhammad re surfaced as the National Chairman of the New Black Panther
Party which was spreading rapidly at the time of his passing. Despite
growing pains, the New Black Panther Party under Muhammad’s leadership
was probably his most threatening position due to Muhammad’s ability to
organize nation wide and implement his militant agenda in a tangible
form that had not been seen since he was a leader in the Nation of
Islam. Now that Muhammad was on his own and his followers were
organizing and carrying guns it is fair to say that by February 2001
Muhammad was in his most powerful position yet and the enemy was well
at
work trying to undermine the fierce leader.
Khallid Muhammad was feared and hated by the so-called Jews, hated by
the Anti Defamation League, Jewish Defense League, the Government and
hated by white America. Dr. Khallid was feared and hated by more than a
few Black People. Khallid Abdul Muhammad was universally condemned for
a
November 1993 speech at Kean College that harshly attacked whites,
“Jews”, and Black Civil Rights Leaders. Pressure was brought to bear on
the Congressional Black Caucus and its leader Kwesi Mfume for their
‘sacred covenant’ with the Nation Of Islam, which was established at
the
Caucus Convention in September 1993. In February 1994, after
considerable public pressure, Minister Farrakhan suspended Dr Khallid
Muhammad in from the ministry of the Nation Of Islam. Muhammad was also
condemned by every Civil Rights organization and by a bevy of white
newspapers, organizations and leaders. Then Vice-President Al Gore
spoke
out on behalf of President Bill Clinton. On February 23, 1994 Dr.
Muhammad was officially condemned by the United States House of
Representatives in House Resolution 343, the first time a private
citizens speech had been rebuked by the government body. Khallid
Muhammad would later say, “I believe it is one of the greatest honors
that a freedom fighter could be paid, to be condemned by his enemy in
such a way”
Despite his suspension and public rebukes, his popularity continued to
grow and so did his enemies. An April 1994 nationally broadcast “Black
Holocaust” Rally on C-Span at Howard University with Dr. Leonard
Jeffries, Dr. Tony Martin, Brother Steve Cokely and student host Malik
Zulu Shabazz upped the stakes. Cleary Muhammad’s suspension and rebukes
were not stopping his message. A spell-binding major network interview
with interview Phil Donahue where Muhammad crushed the white talk show
host, displayed Muhammad’s brilliance in debate all but also sealed
Muhammad’s fate.
On May 29th 1994 an assassination attempt took place on Dr. Muhammad’s
life after a speech in Riverside California. The assassins name was
James Bess, a former Nation Of Islam Minister. James Bess was
ultimately
convicted of the murder attempt and is now serving a prison term. Dr.
Muhammad concluded that James Bess did not act alone and at minimum he
had contacts with, and was ideologically inspired by some active Nation
of Islam members who were claiming Khallid Muhammad was “the new
Malcolm” and had “turned hypocrite on the minister (Farrakhan)”. It is
equally as true that the overwhelming rank and file of the NOI loved
Khallid Muhammad and favored his teachings. Who exactly was James Bess
working for, if anyone is still a question that must be answered? We
have concluded that at least in part James Bess acted upon his belief
that Dr. Khallid Muhammad was ‘messing things up for Minister
Farrakhan’. But James Bess may also have been financed and supported by
major forces of white supremacy.
Minister Hashim Nzinga, a Dallas Texas activist and leader of MAAT
(Metropolitan African American Think Tank) was with Dr. Muhammad at
this
speech and the hospital and effectively got the leader out of
California
to safety. The security situation was a disaster at the hospital.
Official NOI security was ended while Muhammad was in the hospital and
private soldiers in the NOI loyal to the former Los Angeles Minister
provided Dr Khallid security and a safe house. Minister Nzinga Muhammad
ferried Muhammad out of Los Angeles and hooked Dr. Khallid up with the
New Black Panther Party who gave the leader armed security and refuge
in
Nzinga’s home town of Dallas Texas. Muhammad continued to speak at
rallies and organize, even while on crutches and in a wheelchair.
We visit this assassination attempt for one obvious reason. Whoever was
trying to kill Muhammad failed. It was an ‘attempt’ but it was
unsuccessful. If Muhammad remained a force and a threat are we to
believe his enemies would give up on their attempts?
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