New York: Angry scenes were witnessed at Ground Zero over a proposed mosque at the site of the 9/11 attacks that left nearly 3000 people dead and the Twin Towers decimated.
Nine years later, about a thousand protesters lined the streets of Manhattan on Sunday waving flags and signs. The protest was led by a group called Stop Islamization of America. The protesters, some of whom lost friends and co-workers in 9/11, said it was insensitive to build a mosque there.
They want the mosque to be built elsewhere, and say they'll do whatever they can to block the proposed mosque.
"It is a spit on our face. Don't build it here. Built it uptown somewhere. Why they want to put it here. I think Al-Queda is laughing at us," said a protester.
We feel that Ground Zero is a war memorial. It's a burial ground... And, it is an offensive idea of a mask to put a mosque here where thousands of people died. It's humiliating and demeaning," another protester said.
Meanwhile, two young American men from New Jersey, who allegedly planned to attack American soldiers in Somalia, were arrested at the JFK airport before boarding separate flights to Egypt.
Reports say they were planning to join an al Qaeda-linked Jihadist group, some officials though fear, they planned to re-enter the US to strike. The FBI has raided two homes in New Jersey as part of an investigation.(With inputs from Agencies)
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