German police shut down a mosque in Hamburg on Monday which was once connected to the 9/11attacks, saying it had links with armed militant groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Taiba Mosque in the port city was previously known as the Al Quds Mosque and was once frequented by Mohammed Atta, the alleged leader of the group that carried out the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Despite the name change, the mosque in Hamburg’s St George district remained under close watch by security services ever since the 9/11 attacks.
“We believe that the mosque has been supporting terrorism for years,” Manfred Murck from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a German domestic intelligence service, told a news conference held by Hamburg state authorities. About 20 policemen cordoned off the mosque early on Monday and searched the premises, said the Interior Minister for Hamburg, Christoph Ahlhaus, adding that the cultural association behind the mosque had been declared a banned organization.
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