Mack Wesley Cantrell, a 46-year-old male security guard, found himself in the midst of a terrifying ordeal on March 9, 1977, when a group of Hanafi Muslims initiated a violent siege on three buildings in Washington, D.C. Cantrell was on duty at the District Building, one of the locations targeted in the coordinated attack. The brazen daytime takeover was led by Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who sought to avenge the 1973 murder of his family by members of the Nation of Islam. The assailants were armed an
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