UPDATE:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjjFw8KOdHzCZwhZjUVu2sgkqiogD9G217R80
“Man arrested after US forces flight to divert”
By SEAN FARRELL (AP) – 9 hours ago
MONTREAL —
SNIPPET: “Abdirahman Ali Gaall was arrested Sunday at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, said Robert Gervais, an Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada spokesman. He was taken off and arrested under an outstanding warrant.”
SNIPPET: “Oliver said a flight attendant told him the man was from Somalia, but other passengers gave conflicting information about his nationality.”
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http://www.nationalpost.com/CSIS+tracking+Somali+list/3109971/story.html
“CSIS was tracking me: Somali on no-fly list”
Graeme Hamilton And Stewart Bell, National Post · Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. and TORONTO -
SNIPPET: “In an exclusive interview inside the Plattsburgh, N.Y., jail where he is being held, Abdirahman Ali Gaal said he realized he was in trouble two weeks ago when FBI agents at an airport in Mauritania informed him he was banned from flying back to the United States, where he was a legal resident.
They asked him about a number of suspected extremists, including a Canadian allegedly involved in the al-Qaeda-linked Somali group Al-Shabab.”
SNIPPET: “He said CSIS officers had questioned his wife in Calgary about his whereabouts and activities several times over the past three months, while he was in Seattle and in Mauritania.”
SNIPPET: “When he tried to board a plane last month in Mauritania, where he had been studying Arabic, FBI agents asked him about a several men, including Somali-Canadian Mohamed Elmi Ibrahim.
Mr. Ibrahim, nicknamed Canlish, is a 22-year-old University of Toronto...”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal said he did not know the men and had only attended the Toronto mosque where they sometimes prayed, the Abu Huraira Center, once.
A seventh Toronto man is being investigated for allegedly training with Al-Shabab. He has since returned to Canada and has declined, through his father, to speak to a Post reporter. Former Toronto resident, Omar Hammami, is now a senior commander of Al-Shabab.”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal said he talks frequently about the war in his homeland in Internet chat groups...”
SNIPPET: “He said he had no trouble boarding a flight from New York’s JFK airport on March 5, and flew without incident to Mauritania, via Morocco. He said the purpose of his trip was to study Arabic grammar, so he could improve his reading of the Koran. He had planned to return on May 20 but was met at the airport by “two gentlemen from the FBI. They said they had bad news.”
He then planned to return to the United States by flying to Mexico City and on to the border city of Tijuana, but mid-flight the Aeromexico pilot announced they were diverting to Montreal to refuel.”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal was born in Mogadishu in 1976 and lived for 10 years in Seattle. In addition to his Canadian family, he has two children in Seattle from a previous marriage.”