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Note: Photo included. SNIPPET: "A Federal Court judge ruled Friday that the final terrorism suspect being held in Canada on a national security certificate be released. Justice Richard Mosley ruled Hassan Almrei, who has been in custody since October 2001, can no longer justifiably be detained." SNIPPET: "Almrei, a Syrian, came to Canada in 1999 as a refugee claimant. He was arrested in Toronto in 2001 after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleged he was part of a Sunni extremist network. He initially denied the allegations against him, but later explained he had taken part in paramilitary activities in Afghanistan...

Williams worked with authorities on al-Qaida links When Canadian law enforcement authorities busted a Toronto terrorist plot with al-Qaida connections, they acted with the benefit of briefings and research developed by American investigator Paul L. Williams, author of the new WND Books release "Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders that Gave Rise to Radical Islam." Canadian police last Friday arrested 17 suspected Islamic terrorists, mostly in Toronto, who were allegedly planning to unleash a string of attacks in Ontario in retaliation for the country's support of the U.S. in the War on Terror. Williams has long been investigating the link between...

INMATE: She has a room waiting for him. Ottawa lists him as a threat to Canadian security. Toronto-The Canadian government describes Hassan Almrei as a Muslim fundamentalist with links to al-Qaida and Afghan training camps, a man so dangerous that his very presence in Canada threatens the nation's security. But Diana Ralph has an entirely different notion about the threat presented by the 29-year-old immigrant from Syria. She says the jailed man, whom she has gotten to know in recent months, is so harmless that she has spent thousands of dollars renovating her Toronto home so Almrei can have a...