Mosque Tied to Boston Bombers Linked to ISIS, Terror Groups
The Cambridge, Mass. mosque attended by Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also has been linked to the terror group Islamic State (ISIS) and several other radical Islamists, The New York Post reports.
When the connection to the Boston bombers was initially reported, the Islamic Society mosque quickly issued a statement saying that the house of worship did not promote extremism and even noted that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had once been reprimanded over an extremist outburst during a sermon.
But reporting by Paul Sperry for the Post found that six more people with terrorist ties also have attended Islamic Society, including its founder and a prominent member of ISIS.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, who founded the mosque, was convicted on several charges in 2004, including taking part in the Libyan conspiracy to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. In 2005, the Treasury Department said Alamoudi...