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PORTLAND - ABC News reports the FBI is investigating possible al Qaeda terror cells in several major U.S. cities, including Portland. Agents are reportedly focusing on New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Houston, Detroit, Miami, Buffalo, Seattle and Portland. The FBI is particularly interested in several dozen U.S. citizens believed to have trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan during the late 90s. The news has piqued interest in Oregon as questions arise about certain members of a mosque in southwest Portland. First there was the arrest last week of Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, a leader of the mosque the Islamic Center of...

The Islamic Center of Portland -- the southwest Portland mosque that has come under recent FBI scrutiny -- is considered one of the most radical mosques in the U.S...(snip) The FBI is taking a close look at those who frequent the Islamic Center.For complete story click here. Related story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewby Betsy Hiel and Chuck Plunkett:A writer for a former Pittsburgh Islamist magazine is connected to a Portland, Ore., mosque that is under FBI scrutiny with the arrest of its imam, or religious leader.Tawfiq Tabib, 49, who wrote for an Islamist magazine published in Pittsburgh from 1991 to...