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A federal judge issued a highly unusual classified ruling, denying a motion for dismissal of a case against two leaders of an Albany mosque who are accused of laundering money in a federal terrorism sting operation. Judge Thomas J. McAvoy of United States District Court for the Northern District of New York came only a few hours after the government filed its own classified documents to the judge. The prosecutors asked the judge to review their papers in his chambers without making them public or showing them to the defense.