But during this period he never seemed to be at the mosque.
I asked him at the mosque where he placed himself.
"I thought she was killed in that attack at the mosque a couple weeks ago."
All five had been part of the same religious "reading group" at the small mosque.
It was still dark, and people were at the mosque when the shooting began, they said.
They will do the ceremony at the mosque in the city center.
At the mosque, during the fighting, the senator was shot.
He appeared at his family's mosque two weeks before the shooting.
His father, who died in 1997, was a prayer leader at the local mosque.
Officials said the American troops were fired on but did not return fire at the mosque.