The Washington Metro bomb plot was consigned to lesser media attention in the last week of the electoral campaign. But reporting on Farooque Ahmed, the 34-year-old Pakistani-American residing in Ashburn, Va., who was stung by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Metro affair, provided a fascinating glimpse of local mosque life. According to the Washington Post, which ran the story in its October 30 Metro section (in a case that has national security relevance), Ahmed was “a firebrand whose conservative views sometimes clashed with others at the Sterling mosque where he worshiped.”
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