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09-08-10, 11:30
9 August 2010 Last updated at 08:27 GMT
German police have shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11 hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001.
About 20 police officers searched the Taiba mosque early on Monday; its associated cultural organisation is suspected of helping extremists.
Investigators suspect that members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan met at the Taiba mosque before going to a jihadist training camp.
The Taiba association has been banned.
The mosque in Hamburg's St Georg district - formerly called the Al-Quds Mosque - has been under surveillance since the 2001 attacks.
German media say a recent intelligence report described the mosque as "a major hub for the jihadist scene in Hamburg", which it said grouped 45 radical Islamists.
US investigators say an al-Qaeda cell based in Hamburg masterminded the 9/11 attacks, in which hijackers seized four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania.
About 3,000 people died in the attacks - the worst acts of terror carried out on US soil in modern times.
Verbaast me eigenlijk.
German police have shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11 hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001.
About 20 police officers searched the Taiba mosque early on Monday; its associated cultural organisation is suspected of helping extremists.
Investigators suspect that members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan met at the Taiba mosque before going to a jihadist training camp.
The Taiba association has been banned.
The mosque in Hamburg's St Georg district - formerly called the Al-Quds Mosque - has been under surveillance since the 2001 attacks.
German media say a recent intelligence report described the mosque as "a major hub for the jihadist scene in Hamburg", which it said grouped 45 radical Islamists.
US investigators say an al-Qaeda cell based in Hamburg masterminded the 9/11 attacks, in which hijackers seized four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania.
About 3,000 people died in the attacks - the worst acts of terror carried out on US soil in modern times.
Verbaast me eigenlijk.