Posted on 01/23/2010 5:17:28 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Zakaria Amara, 24, the leader of the group - which planned to detonate truck bombs outside the Toronto offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Toronto Stock Exchange and an Ontario military base - was sentenced to life in prison on Monday. He will be eligible for parole in 2016 - 10 years from the day of his arrest."
SNIPPET: "Another conspirator, Saad Gaya, 22, was sentenced on Monday to 12 years in prison."
SNIPPET: "Amin Mohamed Durrani took part in a plot to establish an armed, Al-Qaeda-type terror cell in Toronto "and then to create some sort of mayhem that would scare the Canadian public into withdrawing troops from Afghanistan," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Security Correspondent Bill Gillespie reported Wednesday.
The plot also involved storming Parliament Hill in Ottawa and beheading politicians, among them Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Durrani, 23, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for his crimes."
SNIPPET: "Also on Thursday, another conspirator, Shareef Abdelhaleem, 34, of Mississauga, was convicted in connection with the terror plot. His attorney presented no evidence on the issue of guilt or innocence."
SNIPPET: "Testimony during last year's trial of some of the conspirators showed that they were indoctrinated by listening to Al Qaeda-linked Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki."
SNIPPET: "Four other individuals accused of participating in the "Toronto 18" plot are scheduled for trial in March."
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1747
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Previously...
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365481/posts
The powerful online voice of jihad
THE STAR.com ^ | October 18, 2009 | By Michelle Shephard
Posted on October 18, 2009 8:09:55 PM PDT by Cindy
“The powerful online voice of jihad
Shadowy cleric revered by disenchanted Muslim youths throughout West cited in Toronto 18 case”
CAPTION: “A Facebook page for Anwar al Awlaki has 4,800 fans. He has been cited as an inspiration for extremist plots.” FACEBOOK
SNIPPET: “In a snowy field near Barrie, a group of young Muslim men listened intently to the eloquent voice emanating from the laptop.
Anwar al Awlaki preached in perfect Arabic and flawless English about the need to fight in the name of religion, because the “world is united in fighting Islam.”
The time for jihad is now, no matter your training, he told members of the group that would later become known as the Toronto 18. Six months following that “training camp,” those youths were rounded up in Canada’s largest post-9/11 terrorism investigation and charged with plotting to blow up downtown Toronto and military targets.
Zakaria Amara, the leader of that group, entered a surprise guilty plea earlier this month. A date for his sentencing is to be set on Tuesday.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Tornto is near Toranto?
Sentenced to life, parole in 10 years. Sounds like they have their own Eric Holder up there, eh?
Maybe “Toronto”?
Seriously, what the hell is “Tornto”?
SORRY, Humblegunner.
I’ve been typing most of the afternoon and made a typo.
I informed the moderator already and asked him/her to change it.
Thank you for catching my error.
Oh, I was just funnin’ ya!
Smiling at you...
I know.
:>)
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