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  • Minneapolis mosque leader denies link to Somali terror recruitment

    03/12/2009 7:14:18 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 12 replies · 523+ views
    StarTribune ^ | 3/12/09 | BOB VON STERNBERG
    A leader of a Minneapolis mosque today criticized testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing that indirectly linked it to a terrorist group's recruitment of young Somali men from the city. Farhan Hurre, director of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in south Minneapolis rebuffed what he called "finger-pointing and false allegations" at the hearing held Wednesday by the Senate's homeland security committee. Mosque leaders have repeatedly pushed back against rumors and news reports that have drawn a connection between it and the disappearance of as many as 20 Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities. During the hearing, a representative of the local...