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I had to consider this for a moment and come to the conclusion for myself that it was not a joke. While the video itself is indeed “terrorizing”, that’s not the end to this man’s apparent terrorism career. Khuram Sher, seen below in the clip auditioning for Canadian Idol and singing “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne, was arrested for being apart of a homegrown terrorism plot in Canada. Susan Boyle he is not…. I guess that’s the end to his budding music career. VIDEO

  Three men arrested Wednesday were preparing to build improvised explosive devices for attacks within Canada, police say. They were also raising money to fund improvised explosive device, or IED, attacks on Canadian troops in Afghanistan, RCMP chief superintendent Serge Therriault said Thursday at a news conference in Ottawa. Two of the accused, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 30, and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, were taken into custody in Ottawa on Wednesday. The third, 28-year-old Khurram Syed Sher, was arrested in London, Ont. The three men arrested are accused of conspiring with at least three others — identified as James Lara, Rizgar Alizadeh...

Toronto Plays on Despite SARS FearsBy Etan Vlessing TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Trying to shake off their pariah status, Toronto film and TV industry officials are fielding calls from Los Angeles and overseas colleagues questioning whether they should cancel visits or location shoots in this embattled city.   Toronto, which last week was blind-sided by the World Health Organization (news - web sites) advising against unnecessary travel here owing to SARS (news - web sites)-related risks, has since been cold-shouldered by a growing list of entertainers. "American Idol" champion Kelly Clarkson (news), and the tandem of Elton John (news) and...