The Five Percenter connection is not improbable, but this story (and others)seek to disassociate it from the NOI and Islam, and to make the NOI somehow more respectable because it is moving toward mainstream Islam, that wonderful religion of international peace...
This article gives a good picture of the relationship of NOI and the Five Percenters -- and it is not a positive one.
The Seamless Garment Of Hate: The Beltway Sniper Shootings And Islam
An terrorist influenced by Islam is, by any other name, still an Islamic terrorist....