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* North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park, London : Members of the purported Seattle cell have pledged allegiance to Abu Hamza, relatives say, and several have made pilgrimages to the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park, thought to be at the vortex of militant Islamic recruiting in Europe. In recent years, the mosque has been attended by Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines jetliner with explosives in his shoes. ------ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/715683/posts

The same could not be said for Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese who is a Swedish citizen, and Haroon Aswat, an Asian Indian from Britain, who arrived in early December. The men, hardened trainers for the jihad, had been traveling from Afghanistan, expecting to find many American recruits to train as terrorists. "As I got to know them, I took them more seriously," the Muslim said. Both said they were bodyguards for Abu Hamza, whom they sometimes called on the telephone. They were furious when they found that conditions in Bly were much different than they had been led to believe. James Ujaama had sent faxes to Abu Hamza, describing the ranch as an ideal place to train for jihad. The men instead found the Osmans living in a dilapidated trailer. "It was the nicest one there, and we were stepping through the floor all winter; the other trailers were even worse," the Muslim said. ----------------- Ranch's efforts at terror training detailed- Muslim who lived at Oregon site tells , by CHRIS McGANN, DAIKHA DRIDI AND SAM SKOLNIK, August 9, 2002 , Seattle Post Intelligencer