Ex-con Testifies About Jihad Sermons at Florida Mosque

I'm surprised CAIR isn't defending this as a peaceful place of worship....

Ex-con tells of talks at Florida mosque

MIAMI - An ex-convict testified Thursday that he knew suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and a purported terrorism supporter while attending a Florida mosque, and that he considered becoming a fighter himself for Islamic groups overseas.

Herbert Atwell, 38, said Adham Amin Hassoun frequently gave speeches at the mosque in the late 1990s about Muslim causes and sought to raise money and identify recruits. Hassoun also brought in mujahedeen from Chechnya, Palestine and elsewhere in the world to talk to men at the mosque, Atwell said.

"He would talk about giving to mujahedeen fighters all the time," Atwell testified. "At a certain point in time, the brothers didn't want him to get on the podium any more, because it was the same message over and over and over."

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