"Survivors of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing slammed mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his smiley pic with a controversial imam federal prosecutors considered an "indicted co-conspirator" in the attack. Mamdani, 34, posted a photo of himself smiling with 75-year-old Imam Siraj Wahhaj on Friday, calling him a "leader and pillar" of the Muslim community in Brooklyn and across the country."
""Nobody should minimize what happened," said former Port Authority executive director Stan Brezenoff, whose offices were in the World Trade Center when Islamic extremists detonated a massive car bomb in the North Tower's parking garage in an attempt to topple both towers. Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured. "It was a hellish experience dwarfed by the unimaginable atrocity on 9/11," he told The Post,"
"Wahhaj was never charged in the attack, but he came under scrutiny from federal investigators after it was learned some of the men behind it had attended his mosque. Prosecutors believed he was somehow involved, but never had the evidence to bring charges. Some later criticized the investigation, saying its scope of suspects was too broad, the New York Times reported. Wahhaj himself vehemently denied any involvement - but later defended some of the attackers, and called the FBI and CIA the "real terrorists.""
Survivors and critics condemned mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for posting a smiling photograph with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a controversial Brooklyn cleric tied by investigators to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The 1993 attack killed six and injured over a thousand, leaving lasting trauma, overwhelmed hospitals, and months-long closures of the towers that left workers fearful. Wahhaj was never charged, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence, while some later argued the probe cast its net too broadly. Wahhaj denied involvement but later defended some attackers and called the FBI and CIA "real terrorists."
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