Posted on 09/14/2009 12:50:55 PM PDT by Fali_G
BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters
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Those apartments are perfect no one knows who lives next door to them. Had a sister in law lived in one of them for over tens years, never knew any of her neighbors.
Also several schools near by. Very densely populated area.
A few blocks to the subway and you could be anywhere in less than a few minutes
A few miles in the other direction to Fresh Meadows and there is a big mosque (a former synagogue)
:-)
Dare I suggest that muzzies could be involved???
SEPTEMBER 19, 2001 : (QUEEENS, NY : PRO-TALIBAN RADICALS AT ODDS WITH LOCAL IMAM AT HAZRAT I ABUBAKR SADIQ MOSQUE) At New York City’s largest Afghan mosque, supporters of the Taliban have chosen to pray in the basement or outside in the parking lot. They have not returned to the mosque for daily prayers since last Friday, when their imam denounced the attacks on the World Trade Center.
“When I speak against the Taliban and Osama, they harass me; so many times they harass me,” Imam Mohammed Sherzad, the leader of Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq mosque, said at his office in Flushing, Queens. “They say: “Why do you speak against Osama bin Laden? He is a good Muslim.’ “
The tensions at the mosque last Friday reflect in part the heightened anxieties and divided loyalties among the city’s Afghans, who number roughly 20,000.
A week after the attacks, many find themselves torn between their adopted country and the fear that their devastated homeland will feel the brunt of a retaliatory strike from the United States.
As Washington appears to be preparing a military assault on Afghanistan, many Afghans in New York are pleading for their country to be spared even as they distance themselves from its leaders. While Afghans across the city have condemned last week’s terrorism, a small number appear to be standing by the Taliban and the man accused of masterminding the attack.
At the Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq mosque, tucked into a section of Flushing, the predominant sentiment is dread for friends and relatives back home...
The World Trade Center attacks have only intensified the schisms in Afghan mosques throughout the region since the Taliban began its rise to power in 1994. At Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq, the imam says his congregation has been feuding with some members for months.
“They are connected to the Taliban,” said the imam. “The Taliban wants to destroy the center.”
Members of the pro-Taliban contingent that opted to pray in the basement declined to be interviewed. Experts who have studied Afghan exiles in the United States say that such schisms have broken out in mosques in Virginia and California, and that they often reflect the ethnic divisions that mirror the support and opposition to the Taliban. In Afghanistan, the Taliban forces are made up almost entirely of Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group. The anti-Taliban forces are made up largely of ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and other minorities.
“The Afghan community is extremely divided, largely along ethnic lines,” said Barnett Rubin, studies director at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation. “There are pro-Taliban factions and there are anti-Taliban factions.”
At the Hazrat-I-Abubakr mosque, the imam and many who support him are ethnic Tajiks. Those in the breakaway faction, they said, are mostly ethnic Pashtuns. The feuding has spilled outside the mosque, with the police saying they have been called several times recently to separate the two groups. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at query.nytimes.com -————Afghans at Queens Mosque Split Over bin Laden
The New York Times ^ | Sept. 19, 2001 | DEXTER FILKINS
Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 5:41:57 PM by True Capitalist
Thanks for the reminder piasa.
A different mosque I think:
JULY 2005 : (QUEENS, NY : ) 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...————London Bombers Have Ties to United States
ABC News.com ^ | July 15, 2005 | By BRIAN ROSS
Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:18:12 AM by mlc9852
Speaking of the Taliban, old and new times...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2339554/posts
Al-Haramain Foundation in News Again, For Obvious Reasons!
COUNTERTERRORISMBLOG.org ^ | September 14, 2009 02:53 PM | By Animesh Roul
Posted on September 14, 2009 1:35:17 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “According to a report prepared by Pakistani police (the Crime Investigation Department), the AHF has funded approximately USD 15 million to Jihadi groups in Pakistan for carrying out terror attacks. These funds mostly went to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which is responsible for numerous suicide strikes in the last couple of years and also blamed for the assassination of Benezir Bhutto.”
SNIPPET: “Till 2004, the United States had designated at least thirteen AHF branch offices operating in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, in many African countries and in the United States. But in 2008, the US Treasury Department has designated (under Executive Order 13224) AHF’s world-wide operation, including operations in Saudi Arabia.”
(Excerpt) Read more at counterterrorismblog.org ...
Re Mohammed Sidique Khan:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8IZvJWKwg
“video message of Mohammed Siddique Khan”
Video Description - Quote:
SalafiTV
June 26, 2008
video message of Mohammed Siddique Khan
Category: News & Politics
Tags: Mohammed Siddique Khan
A Queens resident :
* SYED “FAHAD” HASHMI :
Syed “Fahad” Hashmi, a disciple of Syrian cleric Omar Bakri
Thanks for the ping Cindy. Trying to catch up on the news now.
Thank you piasa.
Ok Oorang and you’re welcome.
Internet has been busy lately.
bttt
I never would have guessed that the Queen had a home in NY.
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