London Bombers Have Ties to United States

ABC News.com ^ | July 15, 2005 | By BRIAN ROSS

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One of the bombers in last week's attacks made a direct phone call to a suspected recruiter for an extremist group in New York.

Authorities told ABC News that records show Mohammed Sidique Khan, the eldest of the bombers now believed to be the field commander of the attacks, had called a person who is associated with the Islamic Center, a mosque in Queens, N.Y. Yet, a member of that mosque claimed they had no knowledge of the phone call.

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The main difference between a Christian church and an Islamic mosque is that the mosques will not allow non-islamics inside. This is how they are able to conduct secret planning sessions without fear of being overheard.

As a compromise, we could start 'bugging' these places at the very least.. if not internally, then externally. I would also track attendence.. but then the libs would have a cow. It's not illegal to track who goes where in the US... just keeping lists does have a bad precedent. It could be passed with a renewal concept every 2-3 years. This would allow the people to remove it easily enough if necessary.

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The main difference between a Christian church and an Islamic mosque is that the mosques will not allow non-islamics inside. This is how they are able to conduct secret planning sessions without fear of being overheard.

Exactly. bump.

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Why shouldn't they be hanging out in Queens or anywhere else for that matter? there's an islamic school in Queens that functions normally during the day but at night after prayers at the mosque (up the block) the fathers take their sons back to the school and teach them about martyrdom. Apparently the authorities cannot do anything about it because there have been no apparent links to any terrorists groups. maybe now, this will change things. It's too late in the game for us. these sleeper cells are all over the place, especially in nyc. I bet bin laden's hiding out right here in Long Island City. Unfortunately, we need to round up all illegals and ship them home, and bring back our troops from iraq and the rest of the middle east and wrap them around our boarders to keep us safe. i am a die hard liberal and I welcome all to this country if you are able to enter legally. what stops terrorists from driving cabs around manhattan with a trunk packed with explosives? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, NOTHING NOTHING.