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Home Front: WoT
Cambridge Mosque Contacted FBI To Identify Bombing Suspects Last Friday
2013-04-25
[DailyCaller] The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), the Cambridge, Mass., mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, contacted the FBI to identify the suspects on Friday, April 19, a mosque spokeswoman confirmed to the Daily Caller.
"Please don't hurt us!"
The FBI did not contact the mosque in the four days after the Monday attack and had no communication with the mosque until the ISB reached out Friday.

By the time the mosque contacted the FBI, the suspects had allegedly shot an MIT police officer and engaged in a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
 shootout with law enforcement in Watertown, Mass., where Tamerlan was killed.

"We were the ones who reached out to them. We contacted them on Friday, once we became aware" of the suspects' identity based on the photos, ISB spokesperson Nichole Mossalam told TheDC.

The FBI first released photos of the suspects Thursday evening.

After causing a previous disturbance in Nov., 2012, on Jan. 18, 2013, Tamerlan interrupted an ISB preacher who had praised Martin Luther King, Jr., calling him a "nonbeliever," before being shouted down by other attendees, ISB said Monday.

A handful of volunteer mosque leaders confronted Tamerlan and told him he would not be welcomed if he continued to interrupt the sermons, ISB said. Tamerlan continued to attend congregational prayers after that and did not cause further disturbances.
As an aside, Breitbart notices that the mosque was founded by a convicted terrorist, and is closely connected to other suspicious characters including a certain Mr. Jamal Badawi:
The Islamic Society of Boston was founded in part by Abdurahman Alamoudi in 1981, according to the New York Sun, and was the first president of the mosque. Alamoudi is currently serving a 23 year sentence in federal prison as he was convicted in 2004 of participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.

Additionally, according to the Sun, Alamoudi raised funds for Al Qaeda.

In addition, according to an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post co-authored by local pro-Israel activist Charles Jacobs, a man named Jamal Badawi is allegedly a trustee of the ISB Cultural Center. Badawi was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
USA Today, on the other hand, accuses the mosque of creating a path to extremism, and lists terrorists with which it and its sister mosque in Boston have been associated, including the charming Aafia Siddiqui, beloved of Pakistan.
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