ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA
TORONTO — After landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport on April 3, 2013, Jahanzeb Malik told the border officer who questioned him he had been teaching in Libya. He told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the same story.
But they apparently didn’t buy it because the RCMP’s national security unit in Toronto soon launched an undercover investigation that found he had been up to something far more sinister in the North African desert: attending a training camp.
At an immigration hearing on Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency also alleged that Mr. Malik, who first came to Canada in 2004 as a student, was an ISIS supporter and had plotted to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial buildings in Toronto.
“The planning was elaborate,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco told the Immigration and Refugee Board, “including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others.”
Noting that Mr. Malik had allegedly planned a “terrorist attack on facilities here in Toronto,” IRB member Marilou Funston ordered him detained in the Lindsay, Ont., jail, while the CBSA continues its investigation.
Mr. Malik has not been charged with terrorism offences. Rather, the CBSA is preparing to deport him on the grounds he is a threat to security. While Mr. Malik is a landed immigrant, he is not a Canadian citizen.
The planning was elaborate, including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others
Anser Farooq, his lawyer, said if Mr. Malik had done what the authorities have alleged, he should be charged, not sent back to Pakistan. “Why wouldn’t you prosecute this guy and give him life? I don’t think this is the right way to do it.”
The hearing at which the shocking allegations were disclosed was witnessed by only two reporters. It offered a rare glimpse of the tactics police are using to address Canada’s growing extremism problem — in this case a six-month undercover operation.
The Ontario Integrated National Security Enforcement Team began its investigation last September. The undercover officer contacted Mr. Malik, a flooring contractor, about installing hardwood floors in his house, the CBSA said.
After befriending Mr. Malik, the officer claimed he was Bosnian and had participated in the Balkans civil war. They talked about religion and according to the CBSA, Mr. Malik said he supported al-Qaida and ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
He also confided that he had attended camps in Libya, where he learned “combat, weapons and land-mine training,” Ms. Lourenco said. He said fighting jihad was “righteous” and that those who died doing so were “martyrs.”
In an attempt to radicalize the undercover officer, Mr. Malik told him to watch videos by Anwar Al-Awlaki, the late al-Qaida propagandist. He also claimed to have been in contact with Al-Awlaki.
He showed the undercover officer videos of ISIS executions, including beheadings, Ms. Lourenco said. “He indicated his support for the attackers in Paris,” she added, referring to the deadly terrorist attack on the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Finally, he began to recruit the officer to build an explosive device that could be remotely detonated, she said. His targets included the U.S. consulate and buildings in the Toronto financial district that were not identified at the hearing.
On March 3, the RCMP sent its evidence to the CBSA, which arrested Mr. Malik on Monday morning. Had the man he attempted to recruit not been an undercover officer, “mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result,” Ms. Lourenco said. She said his attempt to indoctrinate the undercover officer was also “extremely dangerous to Canadian society.”
The CBSA said it was still trying to verify the details of several trips Mr. Malik made, some to Pakistan, after he came to Canada on a student visa issued in Islamabad on April 13, 2004, allowing him to study at York University in Toronto.
Just over a year after he arrived, he was arrested for fraud, possession of credit card data and using fraudulent credit cards to obtain goods. He received a conditional discharge and a 12 month probation order.
Despite the arrest, he was accepted as landed immigrant on Feb. 23, 2009 after his wife sponsored him. But on April 22, 2012, he was arrested again, this time for two counts of assault and uttering threats. He was arrested a third time on June 12, for failing to stay at least 500 metres away from his wife.
Mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result
He received a conditional discharge for the assault and threatening charges in 2013, although he was prohibited from possessing weapons for five years and put on 18 months probation. He has separated from his wife, with whom he has two children.
Mr. Malik was not present for his detention hearing but watched the proceedings by video conference. He did not speak and his lawyer made no arguments. The proceedings unfolded under unusually tight security.
The arrest came as the government was defending new anti-terrorism legislation introduced in the wake of the attacks that killed two Canadian Forces members in October. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said CBSA had disrupted “what may have been plans for an alleged terrorist attack on Canadian soil.”
“We are taking strong action to ensure that security agencies have the tools they need to protect Canadians against the evolving terror threat. That is also why we have tabled the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, which I urge all Parliamentarians to support,” he said in a statement.
The U.S. embassy in Ottawa declined to comment.
Grant Humes, executive director of the Toronto Financial District Business Improvement Association, said about 200,000 people flood the city’s core on weekdays.
source: ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA | National Post
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I'll say it again, Canada and the USA need to stop allowing immigrants from Islamofascist Countries.
TORONTO — After landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport on April 3, 2013, Jahanzeb Malik told the border officer who questioned him he had been teaching in Libya. He told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the same story.
But they apparently didn’t buy it because the RCMP’s national security unit in Toronto soon launched an undercover investigation that found he had been up to something far more sinister in the North African desert: attending a training camp.
At an immigration hearing on Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency also alleged that Mr. Malik, who first came to Canada in 2004 as a student, was an ISIS supporter and had plotted to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial buildings in Toronto.
“The planning was elaborate,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco told the Immigration and Refugee Board, “including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others.”
Noting that Mr. Malik had allegedly planned a “terrorist attack on facilities here in Toronto,” IRB member Marilou Funston ordered him detained in the Lindsay, Ont., jail, while the CBSA continues its investigation.
Mr. Malik has not been charged with terrorism offences. Rather, the CBSA is preparing to deport him on the grounds he is a threat to security. While Mr. Malik is a landed immigrant, he is not a Canadian citizen.
The planning was elaborate, including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others
Anser Farooq, his lawyer, said if Mr. Malik had done what the authorities have alleged, he should be charged, not sent back to Pakistan. “Why wouldn’t you prosecute this guy and give him life? I don’t think this is the right way to do it.”
The hearing at which the shocking allegations were disclosed was witnessed by only two reporters. It offered a rare glimpse of the tactics police are using to address Canada’s growing extremism problem — in this case a six-month undercover operation.
The Ontario Integrated National Security Enforcement Team began its investigation last September. The undercover officer contacted Mr. Malik, a flooring contractor, about installing hardwood floors in his house, the CBSA said.
After befriending Mr. Malik, the officer claimed he was Bosnian and had participated in the Balkans civil war. They talked about religion and according to the CBSA, Mr. Malik said he supported al-Qaida and ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
He also confided that he had attended camps in Libya, where he learned “combat, weapons and land-mine training,” Ms. Lourenco said. He said fighting jihad was “righteous” and that those who died doing so were “martyrs.”
In an attempt to radicalize the undercover officer, Mr. Malik told him to watch videos by Anwar Al-Awlaki, the late al-Qaida propagandist. He also claimed to have been in contact with Al-Awlaki.
He showed the undercover officer videos of ISIS executions, including beheadings, Ms. Lourenco said. “He indicated his support for the attackers in Paris,” she added, referring to the deadly terrorist attack on the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Finally, he began to recruit the officer to build an explosive device that could be remotely detonated, she said. His targets included the U.S. consulate and buildings in the Toronto financial district that were not identified at the hearing.
On March 3, the RCMP sent its evidence to the CBSA, which arrested Mr. Malik on Monday morning. Had the man he attempted to recruit not been an undercover officer, “mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result,” Ms. Lourenco said. She said his attempt to indoctrinate the undercover officer was also “extremely dangerous to Canadian society.”
The CBSA said it was still trying to verify the details of several trips Mr. Malik made, some to Pakistan, after he came to Canada on a student visa issued in Islamabad on April 13, 2004, allowing him to study at York University in Toronto.
Just over a year after he arrived, he was arrested for fraud, possession of credit card data and using fraudulent credit cards to obtain goods. He received a conditional discharge and a 12 month probation order.
Despite the arrest, he was accepted as landed immigrant on Feb. 23, 2009 after his wife sponsored him. But on April 22, 2012, he was arrested again, this time for two counts of assault and uttering threats. He was arrested a third time on June 12, for failing to stay at least 500 metres away from his wife.
Mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result
He received a conditional discharge for the assault and threatening charges in 2013, although he was prohibited from possessing weapons for five years and put on 18 months probation. He has separated from his wife, with whom he has two children.
Mr. Malik was not present for his detention hearing but watched the proceedings by video conference. He did not speak and his lawyer made no arguments. The proceedings unfolded under unusually tight security.
The arrest came as the government was defending new anti-terrorism legislation introduced in the wake of the attacks that killed two Canadian Forces members in October. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said CBSA had disrupted “what may have been plans for an alleged terrorist attack on Canadian soil.”
“We are taking strong action to ensure that security agencies have the tools they need to protect Canadians against the evolving terror threat. That is also why we have tabled the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, which I urge all Parliamentarians to support,” he said in a statement.
The U.S. embassy in Ottawa declined to comment.
Grant Humes, executive director of the Toronto Financial District Business Improvement Association, said about 200,000 people flood the city’s core on weekdays.
source: ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA | National Post
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I'll say it again, Canada and the USA need to stop allowing immigrants from Islamofascist Countries.
