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.
But critics were quick to raise Wahhaj’s controversial past — including people who survived the terror attack he was accused of helping orchestrate. 4
“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