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The Imam's Clout

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Ralph Cipriano
Mar 01, 2013
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By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

On a 13-year-old FBI surveillance tape, a cocaine dealer named Bubby is overheard lamenting how he could have saved the life of a fellow drug dealer known as Shafiq.

If only he had brought Shafiq and his rival known as Bree to the Sister Clara Muhammad School, the late Gerald "Bubby" Thomas says on the tape, recorded in O…

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