Posted on 09/27/2005 7:14:51 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Racially polarizing Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan revealed on Friday that he had a private meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, where Nagin gave him information suggesting New Orleans' levees were blown up by the Bush administration.
Speaking to a gathering of his supporters in Memphis while promoting his upcoming Millions More March, Farrakhan said he met with Nagin in Dallas, Texas where the New Orleans mayor has relocated his family.
"We did a whirlwind tour where we hired a chartered jet, we flew to Dallas, Texas - members of the Millions More Movement - where we met with Mayor Nagin," Farrakhan claimed, in videotape of his Memphis speech posted to his Millions More Movement web site Tuesday.
It was during that meeting, Farrakhan said, where he obtained evidence that he would later use to claim New Orleans' levees were blown up.
"Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee," Farrakhan explained, before cautioning that the New Orleans Democrat "didn't say there was a bomb. He just said there was a crater."
Farrakhan then added: "I say they blew it [up]."
Citing an Internet report, the Nation of Islam chief explained how the information he got from Nagin led him to conclude that the levees had been deliberately destroyed:
"Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest - burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall," Farrakhan said.
"One diver - a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them."
Though Farrakhan detailed his meeting with the New Orleans mayor at an open forum, the press has kept word of the Farrakhan-Nagin summit under wraps.
In the same address to the Memphis Millions More rally, Farrakhan said Nagin told him that white racists used attack dogs and machine guns to keep blacks from escaping the Superdome.
"Mayor Nagin told us that those poor brothers and sisters that went to the Superdome, these were the ones who made it out of their houses but didn't have any money or means to get out of the city . . . So when the water began to rise around the Superdome, Mayor Nagin told them to get out and start marching over the bridge, the I-10, and get out of here. So they started marching. And when they got over that bridge into the next parish, which was white, they were met with attack dogs and machine guns."
Farrakhan claimed that Mayor Nagin told him warning shots were fired to keep the black evacuees at bay.
"This is Mayor Nagin talking to us," he told the Memphis gathering. "They fired the machine guns over the heads of the crowd. They accepted any white people that were there, but no black people."
Since his meeting with Farrakhan, Mayor Nagin has had no public comment on the Nation of Islam chief's claim that his city's levees were deliberately destroyed.
Nagin is toast.
Which one of these two is the crazier idiot? That's a tough call.
Prove it.
This man Farrakhan is a complete liar. I thought he had more intelligence than that. Too bad that you can lie in this country, and some people will believe it.
Mr. Farrakhan is given to hyperbole and exaggeration, isn't he?
It's time for Nagin to tell the truth.
"farrakhan is a complete liar"
But that's what mmuslims are supposed to do according to the queeran.
Has Nagin been asked about it and responded with a "no comment," or has he simply not commented on it? Has he admitted to speaking to that nutball at all?
secret meetings, conspiracies, racism, etc.... the usual Farrakhan fare
I notice that radical Muslims have a tendency towards over-blown rhetoric filled with paranoia, conspiracy theories and wild accusations.
I never go to News/Max because it's more like popupads/max. I think I'll wait on further verification of this one.
meeting of the minds?
I read an article about this yesterday and dismissed it as satire. It sure sounds like it!
You think NewsMax is lying? I think this story is legit.
Nagin's not as good at Numerology.
No not saying they're lying just wanting some further reporting on this.
The first gist of this supposed meeting between the two was relayed on Hannity and Colmes when one of the resident underling Nation of Islam Minister Freakazoids stated that Farraknan had been relayed this info via Nagin. Hannity jumped right on it, to the effect, "now that is news that the mayor said as such." Then they moved on to discussing the Mothership thang.
Esp. since Louie is the father of many lies himself including him not being involved with killing Malcolm X!
The first gist of this supposed meeting between the two was relayed on Hannity and Colmes when one of the resident underling Nation of Islam Minister Freakazoids stated that Farraknan had been relayed this info via Nagin. Hannity jumped right on it, to the effect, "now that is news that the mayor said as such." Then they moved on to discussing the Mothership thang.
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