(AP/CNN) Two leaders of the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany, New York, were arrested for helping an individual they believed was a terrorist purchase a shoulder-fired missile, federal authorities said Thursday. Yassin Aref, 34, the imam of the mosque, and Mohammed Hoosain, 49, have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to the al-Qaeda terror network.
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