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The Muslim cleric at the center of the proposed mosque and community center near ground zero is also a New Jersey landlord who got more than $2 million in public financing to renovate low-income apartments and has been beset for years by tenant complaints and financial problems

WAR ON TERROR Imam tied to hijackers weighing Saudi job offer One-time subject of FBI probe headed hard-line mosque in D.C. Posted: August 5, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – A Muslim cleric tied to two of the Saudi hijackers who crashed a jumbo jet into the Pentagon is weighing job offers in Saudi Arabia, says an official at the hard-line mosque he used to head here. The imam, Anwar Aulaqi, gave politically charged sermons at Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., the largest mosque in the country. He was the subject...