Leonard Waxman’s claim that Mohamed Abdullah Warsame is harmless and has “deep psychiatric problems” would be a great deal more compelling if we hadn’t been told so many times over the years that so many obvious jihadis were simply mentally ill. And he may not have a match to blow anything up now, but what if someone gives him the means to do it?
“New charges against man with al-Qaeda ties as lawyer raises mental health concerns,” by Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press, January 8, 2026:
A homeless man who had attended al-Qaeda training camps and is charged with allegedly threatening to bomb public transit in Montreal is now also accused of issuing a threat from jail to blow up Passport Canada offices.
Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, a 52-year-old Somali-born Canadian citizen, appeared at the Montreal courthouse via video conference on Thursday.
Warsame’s lawyer, Leonard Waxman, told reporters after the brief hearing in Quebec court that his client has had numerous mental health struggles and had been recently diagnosed with schizophrenia.
“He really has deep psychiatric problems,” Waxman said.
“We know that he’s sick … that doesn’t mean he won’t go to jail, but I want to see if I can do something psychiatrically for him because he’s not a well person and that’s the story.”
Warsame was arrested in June by the RCMP and charged with uttering threats for allegedly telling a staff member at Montreal’s Old Brewery homeless shelter that he was going to detonate bombs in the city’s public transit system.
And earlier this week he was charged with uttering threats and perpetrating a terrorist hoax for allegedly using a jail phone in November to threaten to blow up the Passport Canada offices in Montreal and Quebec City.
Warsame pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. According to his 2009 plea agreement, he travelled to Afghanistan in 2000 to attend al-Qaeda training camps, where he met the organization’s founder, Osama bin Laden. He later sent money to one of bin Laden’s training camp commanders.
Warsame then relocated to Minneapolis, where he continued to provide information to al-Qaeda associates throughout 2002 and 2003. He was arrested in December 2003 and spent five and a half years in solitary before pleading guilty. And in 2009, Warsame was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison with credit for time served.
He was deported to Canada in October 2010.
On Thursday, Waxman said Warsame has no current links to terror groups. “Absolutely zero,” Waxman said, insisting his client did not pose a threat and lacks the means to carry one out.
“He can mouth off that he’s going to blow this up, blow that. I don’t even think he has a match to do it.”….
somehistory says
Waxman is a Jew. ? He should know better than to try to get this terrorist off with the ‘mental’ issue defense.
If’ it happened to be that the terrorist is mentally ill, then still…lock him up and throw away the key.
It’s kind of funny….not in a laughing way…that so many muzzie terrorists are claimed to be schizophrenic
It’s as if islime makes them mentally defecient…..and of course, islime and the many first cousins and other close relative marriages do lead to mental deficiency.
But it’s the *moral* deficiency that really matters the most.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
To your point, islime combined with low IQ – secondary to multi-generational inbreeding – is a horrific combination.
If that isn’t a set up for mental illness / violent behavior I’m not sure what is.
somehistory says
Thank you, Dr. Lincoln.
A lot of people are mentally ill….as you know. But islime makes them *morally* ill. The combination of low intelligence, mental illness and islime…..makes for a poisonous soup leading to injury and death by the one poisoned.
Low IQ and mental issues from inbreeding….without islime…not so dangerous.
Mike 2 says
“You going to claim mental illness and have a lobotomy or plead guilty?”
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Low IQ and mental issues from inbreeding….without islime…not so dangerous.”
Correct!
rick says
Somalis not only can carry out schemes to steal billions of US taxpayer dollars but threaten to bomb people. A remarkable people.
somehistory says
And if he bombed someone and was injured in the process, he’d want to be treated well and have the taxpayer pay for it.
OLD GUY says
I think they are trained to claim mental illness when caught committing a crime.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Whether he is mentally ill or merely has a mind on Islam, why should he not be sent back to Somalia? If he stays in Canada, all matter of woe will follow, and even if he were jailed for life that would cost Canadian taxpayers millions. In Somalia he will be back amid his own kind. Better for him, but much more importantly, better for Canada.
E T says
You are of coarse right, it would be better for Canada, but better for Canada isn’t in the cards with the WEF, placed PM. Nutters are now saying communism isn’t bad!!!
Sick Of It says
Without a doubt,the scum bag lawyers who protect these lowlife Muslims are on the list as well.Had enough of Islam and their enablers/protectors.Seriously,the culling can’t come soon enough!!