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DAY 15: THE
U.S.
OFFENSIVE HAS BEEN HALTED BY
IRAQI
RESISTANCE AFTER AN
ADVANCE OF TEN MILES. The Iraqis seem to have
been right when they rejected
the claim that the U.S. had crossed the Tigris at
Al-Kut. A U.S. helicopter
and a late model Hornet jet have been shot down
according to U.S. reports.
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Imam Jamil's Worship of Allah leads to new Steps
against him
Fulton County Judge Stephanie B. Manis, in an
emergency session in Superior
Court Friday, March 28th ruled that Imam Jamil
Abdullah Al-Amin must be
returned to state prison because the local jail
wasn't safe enough to secure
him.
The judge based her ruling on the testimony of a
former Chief jailer, Ms.
Shirlie Green, who reported that the jail had
several broken locks. This
testimony enraged Fulton County Sheriff Jackie
Barrett, who publicly last
year stated to an AJC reporter even before the
trial of Imam Jamil, that Imam
Jamil "ambushed her deputies". She fired Ms
Shirlie Green immediately.
During this emergency hearing, testimony was
given that there was an
attempted jail break by Imam Jamil who was
supposedly on video camera
standing by a widow for almost 20 minutes.
A motion was filed late last year by attorney
Jack Martin to allow Imam
Jamil to stay in Atlanta jail pending his appeal.
Having the Imam locked up
in state prison, which is an all day trip from
Atlanta, slowed the legal
process for Imam Jamil's appeal and made it more
difficult for his family and
friends to visit him.
Sources close to the Imam say he and other
inmates would gather to make
prayer and never were attempting to escape. The
former Chief Jailer allowed
them to come out of their cells and this may have
been the real reason she
was fired. Inmates are allowed religious rights
to make prayer.
Sources say that with the onset of the bombing of
Iraq, some Fulton County
correctional officers were resentful that old and
new convert Muslims were
gathering to worship Allah lead by the Imam. The
alleged story about an
attempted break out by Imam Jamil may have been
just an excuse to return him
back to a 24/7 shackled, isolated lock down in
state prison.
Even though not on death row, the state has
violated the Imam's rights by
purposely isolating him from other inmates in
state prison. When Judge
Stephanie B. Manis stated that "the local jail
isn't safe enough to secure
him," I suspect she actually means that the local
jail isn't safe enough to
keep Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin from leading
prisoners to Islam.
Sis. Motisola Malikah Abdallah
(Secretary General,
Jamaat al-Muslimeen)
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2003-04-03 Thu 04:29ct