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Mehanna’s father grew worried, witness says

By Milton J. Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 23, 2011

Alleged terror supporter Tarek Mehanna’s ideology became so extreme that after he gave a fiery speech at a Sharon mosque in 2006, his father became worried, a former friend of Mehanna’s testified today in federal court. His father told Mehanna, a young man who had grown up in Sudbury, to settle down, get rid of the books that “fueled’’ him, and to give no more sermons, Daniel Spaulding said in US District Court in Boston.

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