Posted on 10/20/2009 6:36:14 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Press accounts like this suggest that Wednesday's Canadian court decision ending the government's terror case against Adil Charkaoui constituted vindication for an innocent man. But the court victory for Charkaoui, accused of being part of an Al Qaeda "sleeper cell," raises more questions than it answers."
(Excerpt) Read more at investigativeproject.org ...
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Alleged Al-Qaida Agent Free On Bail (GUESS WHO POSTED THE BAIL...)
CNEWS ^ | February 19, 2005 | PETER RAKOBOWCHUK
Posted on February 19, 2005 8:49:46 AM PST by UpHereEh
MONTREAL (CP) - A suspected terrorist jailed on allegations that he is a sleeper agent for al-Qaida was released Friday on $50,000 bail after 21 months in detention.
Adil Charkaoui, 31, was driven out of the Riviere-des-Prairies detention centre by his lawyer. His family then drove up in a van and, in an emotional reunion, got out to kiss and hug him in the street. His young daughter carried a bouquet of flowers.
“I want to say thank you to all the people who helped me to have my freedom,” Charkaoui told reporters. “People from coast to coast, from British Columbia, from Ontario and especially from Quebec . . . .
“I thank all the people that trusted me.”
But Charkaoui won’t enjoy total freedom. He’ll have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and there will be limits on who he can contact.
The bracelet was not available at the time of his release and will be installed in coming days.
“We don’t know exactly what the reason was,” his lawyer Dominique Larochelle said. “I think they weren’t exactly prepared, but they decided not to penalize Mr. Charkaoui.”
Charkaoui said he would respect all the conditions of his release and was eager to prove his innocence.
“I was never a threat to security,” he said. “I’ve lived 10 years in this country and I’ve always acted as a good citizen. Even if I didn’t have citizenship, I always respected the laws of this country.”
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled Thursday that Charkaoui could be released.
Noel, who said Charkaoui seems to pose little threat to national security, is forcing the Moroccan native to respect a curfew, stay with his family and limit his computer use. Noel will also review every three months the risk of Charkaoui remaining free.
Charkaoui will return to court next week as the federal government defends the validity of the security certificate that was used to keep him detained since May 2003.
A review of the detention order against him is also scheduled for the coming weeks.
Hearings are expected to extend into April.
The security certificate, a controversial provision of the Immigration Act, means most of the evidence against him is known only by the government and the judge.
Charkaoui has denied any links to terrorists.
But jailed millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam and terrorist Abou Zubaida, also in detention in the United States, identified him as the man they met at a training camp in Afghanistan in 1998.
The $50,000 bail was raised by several people, including Oscar-winning filmmaker Denys Arcand; Alexandre Trudeau, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau; singer Bruce Cockburn; and former cabinet ministers Warren Allmand and Flora MacDonald.
Anne McLellan, minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, has said the government “absolutely” considers Charkaoui a threat to national security but would not elaborate on her reasons.
"Charkaoui has denied any links to terrorists.
But jailed millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam and terrorist Abou Zubaida, also in detention in the United States, identified him as the man they met at a training camp in Afghanistan in 1998."
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[osint] Canada: Charkaoui told CSIS about jihad recruiting
Beowulf
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:07:39 -0800
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=256921
“Charkaoui told CSIS about jihad recruiting
2001 Interview”
Graeme Hamilton, National Post Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
SNIPPET: “MONTREAL - In a previously undisclosed interview with CSIS investigators,
alleged al-Qaeda sleeper agent Adil Charkaoui described how members of
Montreal’s Arab community were recruiting people for jihad before 9/11.
“Charkaoui explained that many are called but few are chosen. It’s a funnel
effect,” according to a summary of the April, 2001, interview with the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service, just added to the court record.”
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Those entrusted with making decisions based on facts and the effects of what would happen if their judgement later proves to be grievously wrong are obviously in short supply, both in Canada and here.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says he has no immediate plans to rewrite Canada's laws for deporting foreign terrorism suspects, despite a string of cases in the nation's courts that have left the government's ``war on terror'' in tatters.
Despite mounting evidence that a key government tool intended to fight terrorism is losing traction, Nicholson said the government has secured some legal victories and will work within the framework of existing laws to evict non-Canadian suspects.
Videos show Toronto 18 members handling bomb materials
The two scrawny terrorists are unloading bags labeled ammonium nitrate from the back of a delivery truck when one of them looks up and recoils in shock, while his partner backs into a wall and raises his hands in surrender.
A four-member police tactical team dressed all in black descends, laying them spread-eagled on the floor of the warehouse and cuffing their hands behind their backs before one of the officers raises his thumb to say mission accomplished.
The dramatic arrests of Saad Khalid and Saad Gaya, members of the "Toronto 18" terrorist group that was planning to detonate truck bombs in downtown Toronto, was captured on a video released on Tuesday by the court.
Judge questions CSIS's disclosure in security certificate case
A Federal Court judge says Canada's spy agency has undermined the integrity of the justice system by "filtering" evidence unhelpful to its terror case against Ottawa's Mohamed Harkat.
As a result, Judge Simon Noel said Tuesday, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service will have to open another top secret file to scrutiny by Harkat's special advocates.
OPINION:
Ditto that, MamaDearest.
You’re welcome fanfan.
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