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Government opens secret files
OTTAWA - Federal officials opened up
their secret files on five suspected members of the Osama bin Laden
network Friday, disclosing previously classified details of their
alleged terrorist activities in Canada. (National Post)
Charkaoui supporters attack report
MONTREAL -
Adil Charkaoui’s
supporters are criticizing published reports that suggest the
Montreal man accused of terrorist activities knew about local
recruiting efforts for potential jihadis. (CBC)
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Charkaouri told CSIS about jihad recruiting
Mounties aid Swiss probe
VANCOUVER - Canada and
Switzerland have been co-operating on a terrorism financing
investigation of a Saudi businessman accused of funding Osama bin
Laden. The two countries have been working together for more than a
year on a probe of Yasin Al Kadi, who once had business holdings in
Vancouver and whose assets are frozen in Canada under anti-terrorism
legislation. (National Post)
Accused pushed jihad on internet
MONTREAL -
Writing under the name Achrafe, Said Namouh allegedly contributed to
the Ansar forum, a popular online message board for jihadists around
the world that distributes terrorist communiqués, beheading videos
and how-to guides for suicide bombers. (National Post)
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Jihad isn't about religion
Namouh arraigned on bombing charges
Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF)
Federal court asked to deal with thorny
constitutional matter
TORONTO - After five years of fighting to have a suspected terror
cell member deported to his native Egypt, government lawyers on
Monday 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. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS:
Judge Frees Terrorism Suspect
Fork attack scuttles Canadian's plea
deal
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One of 'the spokesmen for al-Qaeda'
MONTREAL -
From a basement apartment in quiet Trois-Rivières, Que., Said Namouh
helped produce propaganda for al-Qaeda and prepared to martyr
himself in a terrorist attack abroad, a court heard yesterday.
(National Post)
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Killing
Canadians 'best way'
Ottawa reinstates security certificates
OTTAWA -
Eight months after the Supreme Court declared one of Canada's main
anti-terrorism laws unconstitutional, the Conservative government
has reintroduced the provisions with changes it says would protect
the rights of the accused. (CanWest)
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Day defends amendments to security
certificates Ottawa
tackles terror laws
2ndS - 39thP - Bill C-3
Following Britain's flawed lead
Security certificate
'It's like I'm the most dangerous man on the planet'
OTTAWA -
Since he's treated like the most dangerous man in Ottawa,
Mohamed Harkat
may, in fact, be the safest. Men with dark glasses follow him
constantly - sometimes even to the public washroom - ready to
intervene at the first sign of trouble. (Citizen)
Anti-terror law dealt second setback
OTTAWA - For
the second time in less than a week, a court has declared a
significant anti-terrorism law unconstitutional, undermining the
government's intent to fight terrorism by distinguishing it from
ordinary crime. (Ottawa Citizen)
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Ruling separates ideology from the
alleged crime
Part of anti-terror law struck down
Terrorism's
'new guard'
TORONTO
- Secret Canadian intelligence documents written in the aftermath of
last summer's suicide bombings in London warn that Canada has its
own cadre of "homegrown" Islamic extremists. (National
Post)
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Canadian terrorists gets life in prison
NEW YORK
- Mohammed Mansour Jabarah,
26, of St. Catharines, Ont., is one of a small group of elite terrorists
who joined al-Qaeda by making an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
(National Post)
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Canadian gets life sentence
Terrorist gets life in embassy plot
Al Qaeda figure plotted killings in captivity
Passport to terror
The Martyr's Oath
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Arar
spawns new inquiry
OTTAWA - The Conservative
government seized on a growing thirst for national-security accountability
on Tuesday, promising to consider recommendations for two bulked-up review
bodies while launching a fresh inquiry into the case of three men who allege
that, like Maher Arar, they were tortured in Middle East jails. (National
Post)
Terror torture inquiry to be
private
US: file on Arar is too sensitive to share with
Ottawa
Ex-minister says he was not told of errors
Connections show
no apology deserved
CSIS
boss frustrates MPs with evasiveness about Arar
Why would Syria torture Arar?
Review
of Arar case dismissed by US judge
Arar
Commission Reid
Morden
Faking
it easy Abdullah
Almalki
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Maher Arar
CSIS knew Arar's fate
RCMP used 'disturbing' tactics to get warrants
Arar fiasco, the sequel
Day orders new torture
inquiry
Other torture claim
Arar report misses the mark
Key Mounties in Arar case promoted
Former Mountie defends embattled Arar investigation
Arar
RCMP testimony apparently disputed
Committee to probe what Zaccardelli told
ministers
Contrite RCMP commissioner apologizes to Arar
Arar
inquiry hints at deeper RCMP problems
Arar
evidence may be kept secret over security
Diplomatic assurances no safeguard against torture PM
says finding source of leak is the priority
His
year in hell
Report
says Arar trained by al Qaeda
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Ottawa orders Harkat deported to native
Algeria
OTTAWA - Mohamed Harkat, an
Algerian-born Canadian accused of terrorist ties, has been ordered
deported to Algeria by the federal government. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Harkat poses 'extreme' risk, official says
Harkat
informant called 'insane'
Letter
shows Harkat joined Afghan resistance
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Federal
Court rules against terror suspect
MONTREAL
- The Federal Court of Canada has rejected a suspected terrorist's
bid to throw out the government's case against him. (The
Gazette) PREVIOUS: Accused
al-Qaeda sleeper agent ordered released on bail
Alleged
terrorist offers to be Bloc spokesperson
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Montreal
man downed US plane, CSIS told
A
captured al-Qaeda operative (ed: Mohammed Mansour Jabarah) has told
Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in
Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash
of American
Airlines Flight 587 in New York three years ago.
(Canada.com)
MORE: Canadian
report causes AA 587 stir
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Al
Qaeda suspect left Canada voluntarily
OTTAWA
- Canadian authorities have broken up what they considered
to be a terrorist cell but let the al-Qaeda-trained
ringleader go free and leave Canada voluntarily, a
government spokeswoman said on Thursday.
(Reuters) PREVIOUS:
CSIS:
terror cell busted
CSIS
boss invites MPs to shadow spies Waiting
for the Kaboom
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Amer El-Maati
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Hunt
for a Canadian 'most wanted'
ISLAMABAD
- One of Canada's most wanted fugitives, accused by the U.S. 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.
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Ahmed
"The Canadian" Khadr
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Pakistani
officials confirm death of Canadian linked to al-Qaeda
ISLAMABAD
- DNA testing has confirmed earlier reports that Canadian Ahmed
Khadr, a suspected al-Qaeda, is dead, according to reports. (CBC
- Jan. 24, 2004) MORE: Da brief is
da brief
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Abdulrahman Jabarah
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Saudi
security forces storm terrorist hideout
Security forces on
Thursday morning surrounded an Imam’s house in Swair, Al-Jouf
Region, where five wanted terrorists were hiding. The terrorists
began to fire machine-guns and throw grenades at the security
officials, who returned fire. The shootout resulted in the death of
four terrorists. (Saudi Arabian Information Resource – July 3,
2003) |