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=: ae ered * = or Muhammad has, for a long time, been securtty-consctows « 1952, when first viewing the house he was then purchasing for his residence, Muhammad was afraid to enter a room until it was fully lighted and wpon | entering, immediately checked the window locks. After moving into the house, Muhammad had his followers cut away all the shrubbery from around the house and cut away the tree branches to a height of six to eight fost 20 that no one could approach the house without being seen. o=_——E When Elijah Muhammad travels away from Chicago, the ro members at whichever city he visits are responsible for furnishing him a adequate security protection. The precautions taken prior to and during | the Uline Arena “feast” at Washington, D. C., in May, 1959, Provide a good example of this security. Prior to Muhammad's arrival at the arena, FOI members thoroughly searched the entire building for hidden devices or bombs and stationed guards ai strategic places inside and outside the building. Another group ot Fo |. members, in about a dozen automobiles, drove to the airport to meet , Muhammad. They first searched the airport area looking for suspicious persons and on the arrival of Muhammad's plane, marched onto the field and escorted Eiuhammad between two columns of guards back to a waiting automosile. ; pehe