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The 5-story Finsbury Park Mosque outside of which tonight's London vehicular attack occurred has been associated with al-Qaeda. Notable operatives previously attending this mosque include the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, the "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Zacarias Moussaoui (identified as a possible 9/11 conspirator and potential fifth hijacker on Flight 93), senior recruiter and motivator Anwar al-Awlaki, and Abu Hamza al-Masri, a radical Imam jailed as part of the Wood Green ricin plot.
This mosque has been raided on several occasions as part of counter-terrorism investigations and was closed in 2003, then reopened in 2005.
AlertsUSA is attempting to learn if any of the perpetrators of recent terror attacks have been associated with this location. . |