From the NY Times, December 21, 2000
Government Says Attack on Guard Was Part of Escape PlanClick here for links to other stories.
By BENJAMIN WEISERThe government charged yesterday that two defendants in the embassy bombings case stabbed and critically injured a jail guard last month as part of an elaborate plot to take defense lawyers hostage to get themselves and possibly other prisoners freed.
As part of the plot, prosecutors said, a surveillance camera in the cell of one of the defendants, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, and his cellmate was blocked. An electrical junction box was tampered with outside the cell, on 10 South, the high-security wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan where they were confined.
''We have captured the tenth flr. in the MCC and we have several lawyers and officials,'' said a note found in Mr. Salim's cell, according to an indictment against Mr. Salim returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan.
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It sounds like Salim and his band had help on the inside. That would also explain the disappearance of the handcuffs, which had probably been tampered with so that they couldn’t lock. Any Muslims/Black Muslims among the guards? I’m betting on that.
Thanks for that.
not the wording: “stabbed and critically injured a jail guard last month...”
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What happened to “mercilessly tortured and thrust a comb through his eye socket and into his brain” ?
I guess there was not enough room for the details. /s/
Sickening.