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Mayor Nagin in Secret Sitdown with Farrakhan
Racially polarizing Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan claimed on Friday that he had a private meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, where Nagin gave him the information that Farrakhan later used to claim New Orleans' levees had been deliberately blown up. 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.
Story Continues Below "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]." News of Nagin's meeting with the incendiary black leader first surfaced Monday, Sept. 19, when Nashim Nzinga, chief of staff for the New Black Panther Party, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes": "Minister Louis Farrakhan charted two planes and put 16 people on them and flew to Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Jackson, Mississippi, on a fact-finding mission. And he met the mayor of New Orleans in Dallas, Texas, and was told these things directly from him." On Tuesday Sean Hannity aired some of Farrakhan's quotes from the Memphis speech on his ABC Radio show. 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 alleged 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. Attempts to reach Mayor Nagin were unsuccessful, with calls to his office going unanswered.
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