Sheer and utter nonsense for gullible infidels. B Top al-Qaeda terrorist finds Jesus
By staff writers http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22573268-2,00.html?from=public_rss * Terrorist "converts from Islam to Christianity" * Former prison warden scoffs at claims THE mastermind of the first terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Centre claims to have converted from Islam to Christianity. Ramzi Yousef, a self-proclaimed Muslim extremist, plotted with others to blow up the twin towers in lower Manhattan. Six people died in the February 26, 1993, bombing. Yousef was sentenced to life in prison plus 240 years for the New York bombing and another on a Philippines Airlines plane in 1994 in which a Japanese man died. A report to be broadcast on 60 Minutes in the US this weekend claims Yousef has now converted to Christianity but the former warden of the supermax prison in Colorado has scoffed at the claims. The prison in Florence 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 spend 23 hours a day in their cells. Robert Hood, its warden from 2002 to 2005, told 60 Minutes 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 said. When told that Yousef had begun leaving his cell and now claimed to be a Christian, Mr Hood said: "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, Mr Hood said. _____ Terrorist Mastermind Now A Christian? 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Reports On Supermax Prison And Its Inmates http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/11/60minutes/main3357727.shtml (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. Pelley's report will be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT. 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 [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 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. Other al 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," Hood says. "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. Produced By Henry Schuster C MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. 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