Posted on 10/11/2007 10:42:34 AM PDT by Squidpup
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 force 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 60 MINUTES segment will be broadcast Sunday Oct. 14 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET/7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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," says Hood of Yousef. "He has some charisma about him. He's in [prison] 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 says, "He's playing a game with someone. If he's doing that, he's doing it for the reaction....He is the real deal," he tells Pelley. As a Muslim, Yousef prayed almost every hour, remembers Hood.
Other Qaeda terrorists protested the special conditions with hunger strikes that Hood had to end with force feedings. "I probably...authorized, conducted 350, maybe 400 involuntary feedings," recalls Hood. "You could have one person, three meals a day for...two months."
Pelley also speaks with a corrections officer inside ADX-Florence, who tells him what she heard on 9/11 after terrorist prisoners saw the destruction on their televisions. "We had a lot of them jump up and down. ...scream and yell and clap and they were very excited," says Barbara Batulis, who heads the prison's staff union. She also characterizes the Muslim extremists as needy. "They want more than what they have coming," she says. "They want extra toilet paper...writing paper...extra envelopes and if you can't give them, they want to see a supervisor right then and there."
Batulis would rather work among the other prisoners because she is female. "It's very obvious, [Muslim extremists] just look at you with sheer disdain." Hate can turn into threats. "A terrorist inmate threatened to kill my family, because I was doing my job," Batulis tells Pelley. Batulis says the prison needs more officers. "...We are very short staffed. I firmly believe that staff lives are at stake," she says.
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EXACTLY! What YOU said......only GOD is the one to know for sure....the rest of us can remain doubtful.
Hmmm....then maybe he has a chance for Gods forgiveness when he dies in prison.
Will he now have his attacks enumerated as “Christian terrorist acts”?
Videotape him denying Mohammed and post it to youtube.
Unfortunately, its CBS doing this and we know they will be totally ANTI-AMERICA and this will be one more puff piece for the Terrorists.
no virgins for you!
Good if true, but muslims are allowed to lie to us infidels without penalty.
but given the penalties for apostasy in Islam, I am also doubtful he is lying.
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I tend to agree with you. This is not Jane Fonda. I’d like to know if he said this on film.
The knowledge of the approaching finality of death has a way of
making people think about their work here on earth.
Not surprising that people change their thoughts about
who Christ is. It, however, is still not reason for
not paying for your crimes. If the persons belief in
Christ is real (and only God knows), God will sort it out.
A true believer will understand that.
The cover charge for getting into the “club of innocent life
destroyers” is very high...like ones own life.
can this be on the sidebar?
Have a Koran Book Burning Party in front of all the inmates and see who gets upset!
Maybe punishment by making them what “the View” 24hrs a day. That why they would not eat, they would rather die.
The alternative is to sit in his cell and never be heard from, but this way the Libs can start making their usual game against America.
Google the name Carla Faye Tucker ... becoming a Christian , when real, doesn’t release one from the consequences done among men. I intend to ask Carla on some where/when what she first saw when she passed over.
If true, he should soon be rolling on every terrorist he knows. I’m not holding my breath.
and I am FReeping from the lap of RUSH LIMBAUGH!
;-)
Then I look forward to seeing some great videos that he will put together and have them play on Al Jazeeer networks.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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