Posted on 11/06/2003 12:41:48 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
Sniper Suspect's 'Spiritual' Supporters Couple Has Unique Take on Trial
By Natalie Hopkinson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page C01
VIRGINIA BEACH -- For weeks they've sat there -- he in plentiful locks tucked inside a black mesh Rasta hat, she in a black scarf covering her hair, ears and neck -- on the back row of the courthouse room where the D.C. sniper trial is being shown to reporters on closed-circuit television.
They watch the proceedings intently, scribbling notes and occasionally exchanging discreet whispers, but never mingling with the other journalists chronicling the fate of alleged sniper John Allen Muhammad. When asked, they curtly respond that they are from the Underground News Network, but offer little else.
There are reasons for this. The couple dozen or so journalists surrounding them each day are the very "vultures who wish to see John Allen Muhammad hang from the gallows of The Commonwealth of Virginia," as the pair wrote in last week's Internet account, and a large part of the reason they drove their white Ford pickup all the way from Florida to be here.
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At the time Iman I started putting the pieces together last October, he had already been hosting a radio talk show based in Jacksonville and publishing a newsletter covering American Beach, the historically black resort town on Amelia Island where he and Da.Uru I live in "a small commune of nine consisting of two wives, a husband and six children." So he decided to fold the radio show and newsletter and his interest in the Muhammad case into a new Web site called the Underground News Network
Beam me up Mustafa.
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