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Akbar Muhammad is the International Representative for the Nation of Islam
and a top aide to Minister Louis Farrakhan since 1965. Muhammad
accompanied Farrakhan on his trips to Libya, including a late 70s
mission to secure funding for a film that would have featured Farrakhan
as the late Malcolm X. Muhammad writes regularly about Libya and other
African nations in his column “Africa and the World.” |
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Richard A. Marquise is
the FBI special agent who led the U.S. investigation of the Pan Am
Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in December, 1988. Working
with international counterparts, Marquise brought two Libyans to trial.
Marquise now trains law enforcement in counter terrorism and recently
authored a book about the Pan Am 103 bombing. |
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Ronald Bruce St. John is an analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus,
who has served on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of
Libyan Studies and the Atlantic Council Working Group on Libya. St.
John is currently working on a biography of Muammar Qadaffi and has
written extensively on Libya, with works that include Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife and Qaddafi's World Design: Libyan Foreign Policy, 1969-1987. |
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Russell Means is the first national director of the American Indian Movement
and a leader of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Means traveled to
Libya with a delegation of American Indians in 1984 to visit Qaddafi. |
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Vernon Bellecourt was a spokesman for the American Indian Movement
and a principal organizer of the Indian delegations to Libya during the
1980s. Bellecourt went to prison for refusing to testify to a federal
grand jury about his involvement with the Libyan Students Association. |
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Ward Churchill
is a writer, activist and member of Colorado AIM, who traveled to Libya
in 1983 as part of the first American Indian delegation to visit
Qaddafi. His writing includes The CONINTELPRO Papers
documenting the FBI’s surveillance and infiltration of the Black
Panther Party and American Indian Movement during the 1960s and 70s. |
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Warrior Woman is
a Chicana activist, who participated in the Longest Walk of 1978, a
march from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. that called attention to
the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands. Warrior
Woman and her husband, Chief Ernie Longwalker, are longtime friends of
Minister Louis Farrakhan, and traveled to Libya with him in the
mid-80s. |
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YoNasDa LoneWolf McCall-Muhammad is
the National Director of Indigenous Nations Alliance of the Millions
More Movement. Her mother, Wauneta LoneWolf, befriended Minister Louis
Farrakhan while serving as the public relations director for Muhammad
Ali. Wauneta LoneWolf was one of the principal organizers of the black
and Indian delegations to Libya. The elder LoneWolf was later
imprisoned for using Libyan funds to build Farrakhan’s Phoenix
Palace. |
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