Opinion ID: 2295861
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Khaalis' Demands

Text: Henry Siegel testified that after the hostages had been gathered on the eighth floor, Khaalis announced, I am Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. Khaalis was very pleased, for he said that he had asked Allah for a hundred hostages and Allah had presented him with one hundred and three. Khaalis told the hostages that this was a holy war. He said, Be prepared to die because many of you will die and heads will be blown, brains will be blown out and heads will roll! . . . In a holy war there are no innocent victims. Men, women and children die in holy wars, and if you have any sense you will pray to your God and be prepared to die. Khaalis told the hostages that he wanted the Black Muslims who had killed his family, see note 3 supra, and he wanted the movie  Mohammad, Messenger of God  stopped and burned. [8] Shirley Feigenbaum, one of the hostages, added that Khaalis blamed the Jews for the fact that the murderers of his family were not dead, because the Jews controlled the banks, the newspapers, and the media. When District police, including Sergeant Albert Skoloda, arrived at B'nai B'rith Headquarters, a man identified himself as Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and threatened that if the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God, then being shown in New York, is not stopped at two o'clock, we are going to cut heads off and throw them down the stairwell. Khaalis also instructed Sergeant Skoloda to have someone call Khaalis' home. Khaalis added that he himself would call shortly, and that if everything was not all right, heads were going to come down the stairwell. Sergeant Skoloda testified that when he pleaded with Khaalis not to hurt anyone, Khaalis responded that no one had cared when his babies were killed, and that Washington had never seen as much blood as would be shed if what he wanted wasn't granted.