(AP/Yahoo) - A fiery Muslim cleric whose now-shuttered London mosque attracted Sept. 11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was accused of trying to build a terrorist training camp in Oregon. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called al-Masri "a freelance consultant to terrorist groups worldwide." The Egyptian-born al-Masri claimed the Sept. 11 attacks were a Jewish plot and called the Columbia space shuttle disaster a "punishment from Allah" because Christian, Jewish, and Hindu astronauts were aboard.
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