Canadian Jihad
OTTAWA - The federal government has paid settlements
totaling just over $31M to 3 men falsely accused of
links to terror groups, then imprisoned and tortured in
Syria in the early 2000s.
Ottawa announced earlier this year that it had
settled with Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and
Muayyed Nureddin.
(Global)
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Torture settlement
ALGIERS - An Algerian man is set to sue the federal
government for the abuses he says he suffered at the
hands of American security forces after he left Canada
15 years ago.
Djamel Ameziane seeks damages of $50M on the
grounds that Canada's security services co-operated with
their US counterparts even though they knew the
Americans were abusing him.
(CP)
NEW YORK - Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy of Mississauga, has
been in custody since the FBI arrested him in New Jersey
in May 2016.
The other two accused are identified as Talha Haroon,
19, a US citizen residing in Pakistan, and Russell
Salic, 37, from the Philippines.
(Hamilton Spectator)
MORE:
DoJ unseals charges
Plot thwarted
Authorities tried to keep arrest secret
Canadian's confession
FLINT - Amor Ftouhi, 49, a Canadian
from Tunisia shouted in Arabic before stabbing a
police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport, and
made reference to people being killed overseas during
the attack that's now being investigated as an act of
terrorism. (AP)
MONTREAL - The company that operates Montreal's Trudeau International Airport says it hasn't been informed of any specific threat related to reports this week that 4 airport employees had their access levels scaled back as officials looked into the possibility they had been radicalized. (Montreal Gazette) MORE: Employees ID'd as IS supporters Fundamental flaw in security
MONTREAL - Sabrine Djermane, 21, and El
Mahdi Jamali, 20, a couple accused of planning to leave
Canada to go fight with ISIS has been found not guilty
of all terrorism-related offences. Jamali was
found guilty of an explosives-related offence.
(CBC) MORE:
Not guilty of terror
MONTREAL - The worries about a suspect in a terror
investigation seen posing for a selfie last year with
the prime minister go far beyond the anxiety of how he
got that close.
A CBC investigation has learned that the man is
one of at least 4 Quebec men of interest to the RCMP for
their alleged connection to the
2012 kidnappings of 2 Americans in Syria.
(CBC)
TORONTO - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada says Kevin Omar Mohamed, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of participating in or contributing to, directly or indirectly, any activity of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of any terrorist group to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity. (CP)PREVIOUS: Peace bond Arrested on fear of terrorism Arrest without a crime
FORT ST JOHN - Othman Hamdan, a BC man
acquitted of terrorism-related charges has filed a
lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments,
arguing he was maliciously prosecuted in violation of
his charter rights.
Last year, a BC judge ruled his comments might
have been offensive, but they didn't constitute inciting
terrorism.
(CP)
Canadian jihadi reported killed
The US military says a high-profile Canadian in the
so-called IS was killed in a coalition airstrike in Iraq
more than two years ago.
The
US CENTCOM told Global News that Farah Mohamed
Shirdon was killed in the city of Mosul on July 13,
2015. It's
not the first report of his death in Iraq.
(Global)
TORONTO - A Pakistani man accused of plotting terror
attacks in Toronto has been ordered out of Canada.
Jahanzeb Malik, 33, will be kept in immigration
custody pending deportation in a few weeks.
(CP)
VANCOUVER - Bilal Philips, an unindicted
co-conspirator in the 1993 attempted bombing of the
World Trade Center in New York, was
detained by police while on a speaking tour in the southern
Philippines.
(National Post)
VANCOUVER - On July 17, 2014, the RCMP
INSET
in BC charged Hasibullah Yusufzai, 25, a resident of Burnaby, BC,
for leaving Canada to take part in terrorist activity.
(Globe & Mail) MORE:
Dreamed of joining the RCMP
EDMONTON - An Alberta judge has granted an extradition order for a man facing terrorism charges in the US after he allegedly helped pay for his relatives to travel to Syria. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 33, is accused of being part of a Jan 2014 jewelry store robbery in Edmonton to fund the Syrian trips. (CP) PREVIOUS: Warrant
MONTREAL - Ismael Habib has been found guilty of attempting to leave
Canada to commit a terrorist act.
The 29-year-old man from Gatineau is the first adult in
Canada convicted under this charge.
(CTV)
OTTAWA - Ali Omar Ader, a Somalian man found guilty in the
kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout has been sentenced to 15 years in
prison. (CP)
SCARBOROUGH - Rehab Dughmosh, 32, is facing a total of 21 criminal and terror-related offences in connection with an incident at Cedarbrae Mall on June 3. (CTV) MORE: Accused ruled not insane Entitled terror suspect
Posthumous report
TORONTO - Weeks after a Canadian terrorist leader was killed by
security forces in Bangladesh, IS has released what it said was his
account of how his group attacked a Dhaka restaurant popular among
foreigners. The Holey
Artisan Bakery 'was selected for this blessed operation because it
was well-known for being frequented by the citizens of the Crusader
countries,' Tamim Chowdhury wrote in the ISIL magazine Rumiyah.
(PostMedia)
TORONTO - Ayanle Hassan Ali, a
27-year-old born in Montreal, allegedly stabbed several soldiers
inside the recruitment centre, sending two to hospital.
(CBC) PREVIOUS:
NCR
MISSION - Almost 6 months after the
Pathankot terror attack, intelligence agencies have sent an
alert to Canada's Justin Trudeau government, saying that pro-Khalistan
terrorists are running a camp near Mission city in BC to carry out
strikes in Punjab.
(Times of India)
MORE:
Surrey man accused of running terror camp
Doubts on report
Canadian officials not talking
Sikh attempts to shed violent past
Sikh
12 Canadians training for jihad
KUALA LUMPUR - A group of 12 Canadians are reported undergoing militant training at an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan in apparent plots to carry out terror attacks back home.
Canada has been good to me
MONTREAL - In recently filed court documents, government lawyers claim that while Mohamed Omary has been jobless and on the dole in Montreal since he arrived from Morocco. Yet he still somehow found cash to repeatedly visit Europe between 1993 and 1999. MORE: Omary's acquaintances Man linked to alleged terrorists sues
TORONTO - The ruling upholds the national security certificate Ottawa imposed on Mohamed Mahjoub that has severely restricted his freedom for the past 13 years, even though he has never been charged with any crime. (CP) Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub
BRAMPTON - A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant. (Toronto Star)
Court asked to deal with matter
TORONTO - After 5 years of fighting to have a suspected terror
cell member deported to his native Egypt, government lawyers unexpectedly asked the judge in the case to weigh whether it
would be constitutional to send
Mahmoud Jaballah
back to a country
where he may face torture. PREVIOUS:
Judge Frees Terrorism Suspect
Not a security threat
7 years
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis judge imposed the sentence on Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 35, a Somali who came to Canada as a refugee in 1989.
DHAKA - Salman Hossain is a Canadian fugitive. Wanted for
promoting a genocide against Jews, he is the subject of an OPP
warrant and an Interpol notice that asks police worldwide to
locate and arrest him.
But he is not that hard to find.
(National Post)
PREVIOUS:
Canadian extremist charged
Muslim charged with plotting genocide
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shows little concern over the threat posed by battle-hardened jihadists returning to Canada. He even argues they can be rehabilitated. But documents unearthed from CSIS - some of them marked 'top secret' - reveal alarming information about how Canada's spy agency views the jihadist threat, what they're doing to track it and their concerns about future attacks on home soil. (Sun Media)
Terrorist threat to Canada 2017
Strategy to charge suspected extremists
Canadians with terrorist links
Extremist travelers
2016 public report on the terrorist threat
ISLAMABAD - US officials say Pakistan secured the release of Joshua
Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman who were abducted 5 years ago
while travelling in Afghanistan and had been held by the Haqqani
network in Pakistan.
The
couple had 3 children while in captivity, and all have been freed.
(AP)
EDMONTON - Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30, has been charged with 5 counts of attempted murder, 4 counts of criminal flight causing bodily harm, and 1 count each of dangerous driving and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. (CBC)
MONTREAL - The security clearances of 3 more Trudeau International Airport employees have been suspended, weeks after 4 others had their access revoked and were placed under investigation. (CTV)
WINDSOR - Unanswered questions about Mohammed El Shaer's
relationship with a notorious Canadian ISIL fighter, his
repeated journeys to the Middle East and his apparent
proficiency with false travel documents.(National Post)
Returned to Canada
Iman calls for Jews to be killed
MONTREAL - A Montreal mosque is facing a police complaint and rebukes from the larger Muslim community after a video of an imam delivering a sermon in which he asks for Jews to be killed surfaced online. The sermon took place at the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque on Dec 23, 2016. The imam in the video is Jordanian cleric Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr - he was reportedly an invited guest of the mosque. (CBC)
CALGARY - A cluster of Calgarians lived in an apartment building in downtown Calgary to which the 8th and 8th mosque is attached. Waseem Alhaj Youcef was killed fighting for ISIS. Salman Ashrafi blew himself up in a suicide mission in Iraq, killing 46 people. The Gordon brothers, Gregory and Collin, were killed fighting in Syria in Dec 2014. Tamim Chowdhury was killed in a shoot-out with Bangladeshi security forces in Aug 2016. Ahmad Waseem, also lived in the same building before joining jihadists in Syria. Damian Clairmont was killed by Free Syrian Army forces during rebel infighting. (CBC)
Edmonton teen tries to join IS
Canadian among medical students
Counter-terrorism work has 'sidetracked'
Steady increase of suspected extremists
Court hindering CSIS's ability
IS discussed attacks on targets in Canada
Too slow to take on radicalized Canadians
IS believed to have 6 Quebec members
Types of youth attracted to extremism
2014 report on the terrorist threat to Canada
Peace bonds shrouded in secrecy
RCMP using new measures to stop HRTs
Government plans targeted interventions
Schrier's tale
OTTAWA - 3 Ottawa men who conspired to commit terrorism have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced. Twins Ashton and Carlos Larmond conspired over a five-month period from Aug. 1, 2014 to Jan. 9, 2015. Suliman Mohamed was arrested just days after the twins, and conspired to participate in terrorist activity with them. (CBC)
STRATHROY - Police say an investigation has found RCMP were justified in fatally shooting a terrorist sympathizer in a confrontation earlier this year. Aaron Driver died during a confrontation with RCMP in August after making a martyrdom video that suggested he was planning to detonate a homemade bomb in a Canadian urban centre. (CP)
TORONTO - Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born, Montreal-based PhD
student, was convicted in 2015 of planning to blow a hole in an Ontario
railway bridge. His arrest
and conviction were hailed as landmarks in the Canadian battle against
terrorism. According to
multiple doctors, Esseghaier is severely mentally ill and almost
certainly schizophrenic. Everyone involved, from the police, to the
prosecutors and the judge, believed he was a fanatic, so no one noticed
he was insane. (PostMedia)
OTTAWA - Hiva Alizadeh, 34, a jihadist who has undergone paramilitary training in terrorist training camps, will be spared a potential life sentence for recruiting sympathizers, funding overseas terror networks and plotting to attack targets in Canada. (Sun Media)
TORONTO - A jury found Mohamed Hassan Hersi, 28, guilty of attempting to participate in terrorist activity by joining Al-Shabab. (Sun Media)
Canadians can't turn blind eye to terrorism
LONDON, ON - Like so many Canadians who came before and after them, the pair of teenagers travelled west to Alberta with the hope of a decent job, a chance at prosperity, a shot at a better life. (Globe & Mail)
Canadian arrested prior to Algeria attack
MONTREAL - The federal government has quietly settled the lawsuit
with Abousfian Abdelrazik, who denies any involvement in terrorism.
(CBC)
NEW YORK - An Edmonton man pleaded guilty to US charges that he sent money and provided long-distance support to Tunisian jihadists believed responsible for a 2009 suicide attack in Iraq that killed 5 American soldiers. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, who also goes by the name Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, entered the plea in federal court. (AP)
Judge turns down freeze request
TORONTO - An Ontario Superior Court judge has turned down a request for a freeze order on Omar Khadr's $10.5M settlement. Lawyers for the widow of a US soldier killed in Afghanistan, and another injured US soldier, were in court seeking a freeze order pending the final outcome of their bid to get an Ontario court to force Mr. Khadr to hand over his settlement to them. (Globe & Mail)
Canadians donating to family of US soldier
Veterans troubled over settlement
Khadr seeking to tell his story
Christopher Speer
Canadian militant pleads guilty
Beware of the Muslim Brotherhood gatekeepers in Canada
Martin's two classes of Canadian citizens
Khadr's pleas don't heal split
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the national security certificate against terror suspect Mohamed Harkat, rejecting his constitutional challenge. (CBC)
Library plot
OTTAWA - The alleged jihadi plot to bomb Ottawa was quietly orchestrated from within a tranquil suburban library in old Nepean.
Mohammed "Sammy" Jabarah
Canadian gets life in prison
NEW YORK - Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 26, of St. Catharines, ON, is one of a small group of elite terrorists who joined al-Qaeda by making an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Sentenced
MONTREAL - Said Namouh was found guilty of 4 terrorism-related charges relating to a plan to bomb targets in Germany and Austria. He will have no chance of parole for at least 10 years.
Sentences increased
TORONTO - Ontario's top court is heaping decades of additional prison time on convicted terrorists, including Ottawa's Momin Khawaja, in a series of harsh rulings that condemn terrorism with severe new sentencing that discourages leniency.
Dozens of Canadians join Jihad terror camps
Computers 'intended for al-Qaeda'
OTTAWA -
The RCMP has moved to lay charges against the Syria military
official believed responsible for the torture that Syrian-Canadian
Maher Arar suffered in a Damascus prison in 2002.
The charge alleges that Col. George Salloum, a Syrian
military intelligence officer, both inflicted and oversaw the
torture of Arar.
(Toronto Star)
Connections show no apology deserved
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court threw out the 22-year sentence imposed on Algerian Ahmed Ressam for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to US District Court in Seattle to recalculate a sentence for his conviction on nine felony counts. (LA Times)
Amer El-Maati
ISLAMABAD - One of Canada's most wanted fugitives, accused by the US of plotting a terrorist attack that will again involve hijacked planes flying into buildings, is reportedly married, has a child, and is keeping a low profile here. Known to his friends by the nickname "Washwash," Western sources say 42-year-old Amer El-Maati is alive and still living in Pakistan.
Death of Canadian
ISLAMABAD - DNA testing has confirmed that Canadian Ahmed Khadr, a suspected al-Qaeda, is dead. (CBC - Jan. 24, 2004)
Essam Marzouk Member of the Egyptian Al Jihad/Vanguards of Conquest, he helped train the bombers who attacked the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Serving 15 years hard labour in Egypt.
Security forces storm terrorist hideout
Security forces surrounded an Imam’s house in Swair, Al-Jouf Region, where 5 wanted terrorists were hiding. The shootout resulted in the death of 4 terrorists. (Saudi Arabian Information Resource – July 3, 2003)
