Mosque Attack In New York

An imam and a second community leader were shot to death after leaving their mosque in Queens on Saturday afternoon.

An imam and another unidentified male were both shot in the head and killed in New York Saturday, police said, in an attack with unclear motives.

A rusted 5-foot (1.5-meter)-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.

A Fire Department official on Monday said it was fortunate that the damage was minimal from a series of arson attacks across eastern Queens on Sunday night that the police were investigating as a possible bias crime against Muslims.

The authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque there where several of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks had met because it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later.The Masjid Taiba mosque, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, was "closed effective immediately," a...

An imam and a second community leader were shot to death after leaving their mosque in Queens on Saturday afternoon.

An imam and another unidentified male were both shot in the head and killed in New York Saturday, police said, in an attack with unclear motives.

A rusted 5-foot (1.5-meter)-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.

A Fire Department official on Monday said it was fortunate that the damage was minimal from a series of arson attacks across eastern Queens on Sunday night that the police were investigating as a possible bias crime against Muslims.

The authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque there where several of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks had met because it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later.The Masjid Taiba mosque, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, was "closed effective immediately," a...