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Canada Frees ‘Deradicalized’ Al Qaeda Terrorist in Parliament Bomb Plot
Front Page Magazine ^ | 10/18/2026 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/18/2026 3:50:25 AM PDT by DFG

While Prime Minister Carney’s government targets the real threats coming from America and Israel, it’s welcoming back Al Qaeda.

Here’s a little flashback.

For years, police and CSIS spooks have kept a close eye on the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a former warehouse in east-end Toronto. From the comfort of their cars, anonymous agents watched Ahmed Said Khadr – Osama bin Laden’s senior man in Canada – pray and mingle and collect donations for the global jihad…

From the early days of the investigation, police focused much of their attention on a single suspect: 21-year-old Fahim Ahmad, the man distributing the jihad videos outside the Salaheddin mosque… Police were still watching five months later when Ahmad used his credit card to rent a car for two other friends, Mohammed Dirie and Yasim Mohamed. The pair was later pulled over at the Fort Erie border crossing with guns taped to their legs.

But police ratcheted up their surveillance, watching, just before Christmas 2005, as nine wannabe jihadis trained for battle at a farm in northern Ontario. Authorities say the men fired weapons, watched videos and discussed possible targets, eventually settling on three locations: the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto office of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and an unnamed military base.

As the plan took shape, however, 20-year-old Zakaria Amara allegedly grew impatient with Ahmad, complaining that the plot wasn’t unfolding as swiftly as it should. He is said to have taken matters into his own hands, researching bomb construction on public library computers and surrounding himself with his own gang of young, committed recruits. When the suspects went looking for three tons of ammonium nitrate – the same fertilizer Timothy McVeigh used to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City – police moved in.

At least one member of a group of terror suspects plotted to storm Canada’s parliament and behead officials, including the prime minister, if Muslim prisoners in Canada and Afghanistan were not released, according to charges made public Tuesday.

Police expect more arrests, while intelligence officers sought ties between 12 men accused of scheming to blow up Canadian targets and five other teen suspects and Islamic terror cells in the United States and five other countries.

Well we’re over all that now.

One of the ringleaders of the thwarted Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada found he no longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”

Zakaria Amara, who helped recruit members for a group that aimed to storm Parliament Hill and bomb several locations around Toronto, has been on day parole with multiple conditions for four years, and the board upgraded his release after reviewing his case last week.

In a written decision issued Friday, the two-member panel says Amara, 41, undertook a process to deradicalize while incarcerated and has used his day parole “for its intended rehabilitative purpose,” demonstrating “positive change, both in attitude and in behaviour.”

The decision, which includes several redactions, says Amara now plans to live in his own home and continue to structure his time around his full-time job, attending a mosque, seeing his family and “appropriate leisure activities.”

Nothing to worry about. I’m sure the local mosque will be quite understanding.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 2005; 200512; ahmad; ammoniumnitrate; canada; canadal; fahimahmad; fterie; gwot; milbaseplots; militarybase; mohammeddirie; parliamenthill; parliamentplot; salaheddin; toronto; toronto18; torontocell; torontostockexchange; yasimmohamed; zakariaamara

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1 posted on 10/18/2026 3:50:25 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG
They think he's been deradicalized because now he goes around shouting "Allah hu akbar, eh?"
2 posted on 10/18/2026 3:59:40 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: DFG

“appropriate leisure activities”


3 posted on 10/18/2026 4:02:26 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: DFG
Also from Canada...

BASE 'DISASTER' ‘At least 7 dead’ & dozens injured after explosion rocks military base in community’s ‘largest ever mass casualty event’

Note that, per the above, the situation is "very active and delicate".

4 posted on 10/18/2026 4:07:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

More here...

https://calgaryherald.com/news/cfb-wainwright-emergency-incident-fire/wcm/c4ae5c03-0acc-4d39-967f-82ae626f6b8c

Note the last sentence of the article.


5 posted on 10/18/2026 4:10:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

More here, FWIW...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/cfb-wainwright-fire-live-updates-9.7385537


6 posted on 10/18/2026 4:13:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

Unnamed media sources provide an explanation for the event...

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/canada-military-base-fire-wainwright-alberta-edmonton-b3068718.html


7 posted on 10/18/2026 4:23:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: DFG

WE no longer live in Canada.

We live in Kanuckistan.


8 posted on 10/18/2026 4:29:37 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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At least one member of a group of terror suspects plotted to storm Canada’s parliament and behead officials

Gosh, I almost wish... no, no, of course not... but still... no, no, stop that...

9 posted on 10/18/2026 5:03:50 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: mewzilla

“….and an unnamed military base.”
Now we know the name.


10 posted on 10/18/2026 5:07:10 AM PDT by Donbue
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To: DFG

terrorists are laughing their heads off over this-


11 posted on 10/18/2026 5:31:16 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana)
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To: DFG; All

Thanks for posting. Horrible.


12 posted on 10/18/2026 6:19:39 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: equaviator

[They think he’s been deradicalized]

The Western World is dangerously naïve regarding Islam.


13 posted on 10/18/2026 6:44:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: DFG

I saw a video of Carney giving a speech in Alberta yesterday he had the insane Elbows Up crowd but when Carney said his usual line about the world being more dangerous and divided someone in the audience shouted BS ,LOL


14 posted on 10/18/2026 6:45:52 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: DFG

Carney plans to bring in 15-60 million(An Army) from India he calls it immigration but it’s Really an Invasion and India plans to takeover Canada


15 posted on 10/18/2026 6:51:27 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Don’t forget that Clinton commuted the sentences of the Puerto Rican terrorists who shot up Congress, hitting five Congressmen (but remember that wasn’t the biggest attack on Our Democracy™ in history) and attacked Blair House where President Truman was staying.


16 posted on 10/18/2026 7:13:43 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: DFG

Guy Fawkes was hanged, drawn and quartered. Bring it back. How far we have fallen.


17 posted on 10/18/2026 8:14:39 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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