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Driver Slams Car Into Mosque in Ohio
PARMA, Ohio (Reuters) - A 29-year-old man smashed his car through
the entrance of a mosque early on Monday, police said, in another
assault on Muslims in the United States apparently linked to last week's
deadly hijack attacks.
Police said Eric Richley of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, hurtled his car at
80 mph through the front of the center shortly after midnight, landing on
top of a fountain inside the unoccupied mosque.
Richley was taken to a hospital, where his condition was not
immediately disclosed.
A spokesman for the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland, which
sustained more than $100,000 in damages, said it had received
numerous threats and had added extra security since last week's deadly
attacks on New York and Washington.
U.S. investigators say Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden (news -
web sites) and radical cells associated with him are prime suspects in the
attacks.
Parma is an ethnically diverse community of 87,000 located just south of
Cleveland.
The weekend shooting deaths of a Pakistani grocer in Dallas and a Sikh
employee of a Mesa, Arizona, gas station were being investigated as
hate crimes by the FBI (news - web sites). Three mosques in Dallas
have been hit by bullets and homemade firebombs, and several
telephoned threats have been received by Muslim sites and school |
