German mosque of 9/11 hijackers shut down

GERMAN police yesterday shut down a mosque in Hamburg frequented by suicide hijackers from the September 11, 2001 attacks and suspected of recruiting jihadists, authorities said.

An affiliated cultural centre called Taiba was also banned.

“Hamburg must not become a cradle of violent Islamists,” said the city-state’s chief interior affairs official, Christoph Ahlhaus.