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<h2><b>Prison interview with Mondo we Langa on COINTELPRO and Omaha Two
case</b></h2><font size=3>October 18th, 2010 10:08 am ET<br>
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</a></font><font size=3>Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) imprisoned
in the maximum security Nebraska State Penitentiary at Lincoln is serving
a life sentence for the 1970 bombing murder of an Omaha
policeman.<br><br>
Mondo was a leader of the Black Panther Party affiliate National
Committee to Combat Fascism in Omaha and was convicted with Ed
Poindexter, chairman of the Omaha chapter, for the murder of Larry
Minard. Both men were targets of the infamous Operation COINTELPRO
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<br><br>
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, waged his own secret war on
political activists in America using the clandestine COINTELPRO
bureaucracy against individuals and groups he targeted in the largest
abuse of law enforcement powers in American history.<br><br>
Minard had been lured to his death by an anonymous 911 caller.
Hoover ordered the withholding of a FBI crime lab report on the identity
of the 911 caller in order to convict the two Panther leaders now known
as the Omaha Two.<br><br>
In an exclusive prison interview Mondo we Langa, who maintains his
innocence, talked about COINTELPRO and his prosecution from the prison
where he has been held for four decades.<br><br>
“We didn’t know about COINTELPRO…but what we did know in the Party is
that in ‘69 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark had been murdered by the police
in Chicago. We knew that all over the country Panthers were being
targeted by the police, the FBI and so forth, So even though we
didn’t know about the existence of COINTELPRO we did know that some
things were going on that should not be going on in a supposed
democracy.”<br><br>
“It is about paranoia. And when you think about it the U.S.
government had a right to be paranoid<br>
They were doing wrong to people every day.”<br><br>
“But there were a couple of agendas working hand in hand. One, you
had the Omaha Police Department. Two, you had the FBI. Now the
FBI’s agenda was probably more related to the destruction of the Black
Panther Party solely. The Omaha Police agenda had that as part of
their agenda as well as finding the killer or killers of Minard.
You can believe those cops wanted somebody.” <br>
“But when you put the two agendas together, that is where we ended up
with the situation where six people were so-called suspects and only two
people went to trial. Somebody had to pay for Minard’s killing, so
they got that taken care of. At the same time they were able to
essentially kill the head so the body would die.”<br><br>
Mondo we Langa currently has a new trial request pending before the 8th
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals citing a new forensic analysis of the 911
tape that disputes the official version of the case. No date for a
decision on the request has been set.<br><br>
<i>Permission granted to reprint<br><br>
</i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJY7FUPPmjg">YouTube prison
interview with Mondo we Langa<br><br>
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