Synopsis

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, an alarming claim surfaced: Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had visited Lodi, California, in the late 1990s, attending a local mosque alongside two Pakistani imams with ties to a conservative Islamic school linked to the former Taliban regime. This assertion, made by an FBI informant, fueled concerns that radical Islamic figures were attempting to establish a madrassa in the United States as a recruitment center. As McGregor Scott, the