CATSKILLS: NOT JUST FOR BUNGALOWS ANYMORE. Now you can go there to plot terrorist attacks too:

A remote Muslim commune nestled in the Catskill Mountains has come under the scrutiny of state and federal authorities for possible ties to terrorism, according to law-enforcement sources.

Officials say Islamberg - a wooded, 70-acre encampment in upstate Tompkins, about three hours north of the city - acts as the headquarters for an outfit called Muslims of the Americas, widely believed to be a front for Jamaat al-Fuqra, founded by radical Pakistani cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani.

Some people will just use any excuse to get out of the city...

Technorati Tag: Islamists and Catskills and Terrorism and Islamberg and Jamaat al-Fuqra and Mubarak Ali Gilani.