Report: Saudi King May Want to Move Ground Zero Mosque To Another Manhattan Neighborhood

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Report: Saudi King May Want to Move Ground Zero Mosque To Another Manhattan Neighborhood

Attorney is claiming the Saudi King may want to move the proposed mosque at Ground Zero to the shuttered St. Vincent's Medical Hospital in Manhattan nypost.com Manhattan lawyer with ties to the Saudi royal family is sounding out officials and community leaders about a plan to move the controversial Ground Zero mosque to the West Village. Attorney Dudley Gaffin is claiming King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia might want to buy shuttered St. Vincent's Medical Center and transfer the mosque to a new Islamic cultural center he would build on a plot at the site, say sources who have heard Gaffin's pitch The king, worth more than $20 billion, would also save the hospital, reopening most of the units that closed when St. Vincent's filed for bankruptcy on April 14, the sources said. They say that Gaffin, who heads his own firm in lower Manhattan, is floating the idea to gauge what the reaction might be -- and to ready a bid to rival the Rudin Organization, which is trying to snap up St. Vincent's in bankruptcy court with an eye on tearing down six hospital buildings for luxury housing. "He says the king wants to do this as a p.r. move -- to save the hospital and move the mosque away from the World Trade Center site," the source added. "He wants to show that Muslims can do good works." The backers of the Ground Zero mosque say no one's contacted them about moving the mosque to St. Vincent's Read more at www.hapblog.com

 

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