Friday
13Apr2007
Florida mosque burns – arson suspected
Friday, April 13, 2007 TAMPA – The fire melted the mosque's photographs, burned the thick, green carpet down to bare concrete. A pile of singed prayer rugs sat on the floor. Bookcases along a wall held dozens of scorched Korans. Outside, investigators discovered a can of gasoline, said Hillsborough Fire Rescue spokesman Ray Yeakley. Someone deliberately set fire Thursday morning to the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, a mosque tucked into a neighborhood of tidy suburban homes in Town 'N Country, according to Hillsborough Fire Rescue and the FBI.