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After Hamburg's notorious 9-11 Mosque "Masjid Taiba" was closed last year, radical Salafis are searching for a place to meet and worship. In a small North German community they found a new home – one of them a 18 year-old convert who threatens local Jewish Community officials.
In the morning hours of August 9 2010 German police raided Hamburg's most notorious mosque "Masjid Taiba". Hamburg's interior ministry had ordered the closure of the building situated in the St.Georg neighborhood near the main train station. Nine years ago, on September 11th 2001 a group of regular visitors of the mosque committed the worst terrorist attack in modern history. Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and the others of the so-called "Hamburg Cell" had worshipped, prayed and met in the rooms of then called "Al Quds Mosque". The mosque had become the centre of radical Islam in Germany. Ultra-religious Islamists of various nationalities and ethnic backgrounds formed a Salafi community that was under the watchful eye of Hamburg's counter-terrorism officials.
Rumors said "Masjid Taiba" was filled with wiretapping tools and electronic devices to record all sermons and private conversation. The Jihadi mosque where worshippers praised the 9/11 hijackers and German militants fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq as "holy warriors", had been infiltrated by Hamburg's intelligence agency but nevertheless remained the ideological heartland for Islamic fanatics sharing the same ideas and wish about dying a martyr's death in the Jihad against the unbelievers.