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Mosque Used by 9/11 Plotters Is Closed
Hamburg authorities closed a mosque with a history of indoctrinating and radicalizing young people (including several of the 9/11 hijackers) and serving as a meeting place for jihadists. Said Christoph Ahlhaus, secretary of the interior for the city of Hamburg, “Behind the scenes, a supposed cultural organization shamelessly used the freedoms of our democratic rule of law to promote holy war.”
The authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque where several of the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks had met, asserting that it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later.
The Masjid Taiba mosque in Hamburg, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, was “closed effective immediately,” according to a statement by the Hamburg Interior Ministry. German television showed blue-uniformed police officers carrying computers out of the mosque in the St. Georg neighborhood.
That the small mosque near Hamburg’s main train station was still in operation and still, according to law enforcement officials, indoctrinating young people with a form of Islam that encouraged violence demonstrated the challenges faced by Western democracies like Germany in controlling extremism without impinging on civil rights and religious freedom.
The mosque had been under surveillance for years, but efforts to close it received new urgency after a group of radicalized young people associated with the mosque, most of them German citizens with roots in Muslim countries, traveled last year to the region along the border shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan. Officials said clearing the legal and bureaucratic obstacles to closing a mosque was a slow process, one that finally succeeded Monday.
Jews Reluctantly Abandon Swedish City Amid Growing Anti-Semitism
Due to growing sentiments and incidents of anti-Semitism across Western Europe, Jews are fleeing cities like Malmo, the third largest city in Sweden. “Sweden is a microcosm of contemporary anti-Semitism,” said Charles Small, director of the Yale University Initiative for the Study of Anti-Semitism. “It’s a form of acquiescence to radical Islam, which is diametrically opposed to everything Sweden stands for.”
At some point, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that often greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the 107-year-old Moorish-style synagogue in this port city forced the 32-year-old attorney to make a difficult, life-changing decision: Fearing for his family’s safety after repeated anti-Semitic incidents, Eilenberg reluctantly uprooted himself and his wife and two children, and moved to Israel in May.
Sweden, a country long regarded as a model of tolerance, has, ironically, been a refuge for Eilenberg’s family. His paternal grandparents found a home in Malmo in 1945 after surviving the Holocaust. His wife’s parents came to Malmo from Poland in 1968 after the communist government there launched an anti-Semitic purge.
But as in many other cities across Europe, a rapidly growing Muslim population living in segregated conditions that seem to breed alienation has mixed toxically with the anger directed at Israeli policies and actions by those Muslims — and by many non-Muslims — to all but transform the lives of local Jews. Like many of their counterparts in other European cities, the Jews of Malmo report being subjected increasingly to threats, intimidation and actual violence as stand-ins for Israel.
“I didn’t want my small children to grow up in this environment,” Eilenberg said in a phone interview just before leaving Malmo. “It wouldn’t be fair to them to stay in Malmo.”
7/7 Anniversary: Friends and Families Mourn Bombing Victims
"She had a fear she would be a victim of terrorism, particularly of a bus bomb in Jerusalem. How ironic then that she should be the victim of what will, hopefully, be the only one we will ever have."
Every year they gather at the spot. Today was no exception. Five years after an explosion tore apart the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square, family and friends of the 12 innocent victims who died there stood in silence as the clock ticked towards 9.47am.
"We tend not to speak. There will be a smile, maybe, or a glance of recognition," said John Falding, 66, whose partner Anat Rosenberg, 39, died in the blast – one of the 52 victims of the four suicide bombings on the capital's transport network that day.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a new drive to bring peace and prosperity to the Caucasus, a region torn apart by Shariah-driven terrorists. "But their time is running out. We will with all our force protect the life, rights and security of our citizens," he said.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday time was running out for extremists in the Caucasus, as he announced an ambitious drive to bring prosperity to the violence-torn region.
Putin told top government officials to come up with plans to turn the former war zone of Chechnya and neighbouring Dagestan and Ingushetia into an investor haven as he vowed to quash any attempts to break up Russia.
Faisal Shahzad Pleads Guilty in Times Square Car Bomb Plot, Warns of More Attacks
30-year-old naturalized American Faisal Shahzad, who was born in Pakistan and lived in Connecticut, pleaded guilty to ten different terror-related federal charges, two of which carry a mandatory life sentence. He warned that further attacks were coming. Shahzad confirmed that he had placed the car bomb in Times Square at its busiest in order to do the maximum damage. "I consider myself a Muslim soldier," he said.
Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to trying to explode a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, and to receiving terror training from the Pakistani Taliban, and warned that further attacks on the U.S. were coming. Brian Ross discusses Faisal Shazad's unrepentant court appearance.
The 30-year-old naturalized American, who was born in Pakistan and lived in Connecticut, pleaded guilty to ten different terror-related federal charges, two of which carry a mandatory life sentence.
After Shahzad pleaded guilty to the first charge, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, Judge Miriam Cedarbaum said, "I gather you want to plead guilty to all [the charges.]
