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| Authorities Close Mosque Used by 9/11 Plotters |
| 2010-08-09 |
| Authorities in Hamburg said Monday they had shut down the mosque in Hamburg where members of the Sept. 11 plot had met. The Taiba mosque, formerly known as the Al Quds mosque, was “immediately closed,” according to a statement by the Hamburg Interior Ministry. The daily newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported that police searched the mosque in the St. Georg neighborhood shortly after 6 o’clock in the morning. Mohamed Atta and other members of Sept. 11 plot used the mosque on Steindamm, near Hamburg’s main train station, as a meeting place. A report released in May by the Interior Ministry said that the mosque “remains the central attraction for the Jihadist scene.” According to the newspaper report, a group of ten people who met at the mosque traveled from Hamburg to the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan in March 2009, likely with the goal of training at a militant camp there. German intelligence officials have expressed concerns over the growing number of young Germans drawn into the militant Islamist scene and the possibility that they will return from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region to commit acts of terror. In addition to closing the mosque, authorities banned the cultural association that ran it. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Wow! That took less than a decade! |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-08-09 21:00 |
| #1 The U.S. should take a cue and shut off the mosque at the 911 site. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-09 07:08 |