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Germany: Hamburg shuts down 9/11 hijackers' mosque (was: 45-47 Park Place)

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Aug 9 05:06:36 2010, in response to Landmarking of 45-47 Park Place denied, posted by AMoreira81 on Tue Aug 3 10:16:21 2010.

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Hamburg shuts mosque visited by 9/11 terrorists

Published: 9 Aug 10 10:17 CET

German police shut down a mosque in the northern city of Hamburg on Monday frequented by suicide hijackers from the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

An affiliated cultural center was also closed.

"The Hamburg Interior Ministry closed the Arab-German cultural club Taiba," the authorities said in a statement. "The former Al-Quds mosque was also closed."

They did not explain the decision to close the mosques, but officials including the head of the Hamburg anti-terror coordination unit plan to hold a press conference at 10:30 am.

German media reported that suspected Islamic militants had been using the site in the city's Sankt Georg quarter as a meeting place.

Three of the September 11 hijackers including their ringleader Mohammed Atta, who piloted the first plane into New York's World Trade Center, met frequently at the Al-Quds mosque before moving to the United States.

Authorities said the prayer house served as a recruitment center for fellow jihadists, including accomplices of the hijackers.

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