Terrorist Mastermind Now A Christian?

[sabra]

Source: CBS News 60 Minutes

(CBS) Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive Supermax prison where he is being held.

Pelley also reports that some 900 forced feedings were performed on other al Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison.

The prison in Florence, Colo., which the government calls ADX-Florence for Administrative Maximum, houses the nation's toughest and most infamous criminals, such as Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph, would-be 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols and shoe bomber Richard Reid. 60 Minutes obtained exclusive footage of prisoners inside the facility, where special-case prisoners are allowed only a phone call a month, spend 23 hours a day in their 12-by-7 cells and can get mail only from people approved by the prison.

Robert Hood, its warden from 2002 to 2005, says Yousef was a special case. He never left his cell because he did not want to face the indignity of a strip search required for recreation. "He has that Charlie Manson look," Hood says of Yousef. "He has some charisma about him. He's in uniform, but you know that there's a powerful person you're looking at," Hood says. Told that Yousef has begun leaving his cell and now claims to be a Christian, Hood tells Pelley, "He's playing a game with someone. If he's doing that, he's doing it for the reaction ... He is the real deal." As a Muslim, Yousef prayed almost every hour, Hood says.

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[TheWraith]

1. Whatever.

For guys like that, the real punishment isn't being locked up, but being denied the spotlight of public attention.

[crim son]

2. I guess we can set him free now. He poses no danger.

:sarcasm:

[tom_paine]

12. No, but we should populate the cells on either side with Bush War Criminals

Not that such would ever happen. Neither the Germans of the 30s nor the Imperial Subjects of Amerika had/have what it takes to stop tyranny, rather than embrace it and it's lies.

[Ian David]

3. They'll let him out on parole early so he can bomb abortion clinics instead? n/t

[Mz Pip]

4. Ann Coulter will be thrilled n/t

[RamboLiberal]

7. Yep - he's been "perfected" n/t

[maxsolomon]

5. haven't grown that much, have you?

try the dharma instead.

[ohio2007]

11. He's "Lost"

the dharma island project is where he belongs with "Saheeed" and 'the others' ;)

[1monster]

6. Just what is it about prisons that turn so many high profile convicts to finding

Christ and Christianity??? :shrug:

I've always doubted those jail house conversions. They always seem sooo convenient.

[puffymuffins]

8. I think he's just taking a shot in the dark

My guess is that, because he is such a fundie religious fanatic that, in his cultural naivety, he merely assumes that if you change over to the infidel's religion, that they will let you go. LOL! Rot in prison, asshole!

[Gin]

9. so......now he allows himself to be strip searched.......

very interesting.

[ohio2007]

10. Ya do and say what you think it takes to get out of jail

if the parole board ever bought into that line of bs and let him out...
he can allways renounce his renouncement of islam

...."He's playing a game with someone. If he's doing that, he's doing it for the reaction ... He is the real deal." As a Muslim, Yousef prayed almost every hour, Hood says.

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