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Cromitie's Parents in Afghanistan? Mom: "My Foot"
When Cromitie -- a lifelong jailbird -- last got out of prison two years ago, he similarly told stunned relatives in The Bronx that he had converted to Islam.

He announced that his new name was Abdul Rahman and that he was now living in Newburgh.

"He told me that he was a Muslim and that didn't eat pork anymore, and I told him, 'Get out of here!' " said his surprised mother, Adela Cromitie. "Why would he do something like that? He was raised Episcopalian."
He was educated at Rikers ...
According to a criminal complaint, Cromitie told an FBI informant "that his parents lived in Afghanistan prior to his birth and that, because of his connection to Afghanistan, he was upset about the war there."

But Adela was shocked by that claim. "I don't why he'd say that. We have no ties to the Middle East or anything like that," she said. "We are from the South, although he has some relatives in Barbados."
There, you see? Barbados begins with B, Afghanistan begins with A -- the connection is obvious!

Posted by: KBK 2009-05-23
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=270334