No longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
While Prime Minister Carney’s government targets the real threats coming from America and Israel, it’s welcoming back Al Qaeda.
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.
Rick Gordon says
Canadians can thank ex-PM Trudeau. – as well as the current government for the situation. Canadians Wayne paying for a generation or more.
L.P.M. de de vette says
Excuse my ignorance Rick, but I don’t understand your second sentence. (Canadians Wayne paying)
Gamzu says
I’m guessing he intended: Canadians will be paying…
And the computer did the rest.
Rick Gordon says
‘Wayne’ should have been ‘will be’ –
Wellington says
The West is now largely led by idiots (and has been for several decades now). Virtually nothing could be clearer than this. So sick of the Carneys, the Trudeaus, the Macrons, the Merkels, the Obamas, the Bidens, the Albaneses, etc. What a bunch of destructive clowns they have been.
Rick Gordon says
A good source is the current paperback ‘Holiday From History’ by Uriel Zehavi. It’s fact filled with the author’s analysis – brief and supports your point.
Rob Porter says
Well said, Wellington. This is Canadian naivety and Islam-clueless gullibility in full bloom for you. Nothing I’ve ever seen from the Parole Board of Canada suggested that it possessed brain power above that of a turnip. Zakaria Amara has not abandoned Islam, still attends a mosque where anti-infidel incitement will be preached, but the Parole Board of Canada won’t want to hear such “Islamophobic” or “racist” nastiness.
A few years ago, a Muslim columnist with the Toronto Sun newspaper, the late Tarek Fatah, who I had good reason to believe was no longer infatuated with Islam, before a Senate committee in Ottawa, recommended a few things to bridle in Islam in Canada. This being Canada, nothing he recommended was heeded by the bright sparks in Ottawa. Fatah, among other things, told this Senate group that each Friday, in. every mosque across Canada, Imams prayed that Allah would help Muslims defeat the infidel.
Charming stuff! But by now everyone other than the Parole board of Canada and others with as brain their head knows that Islam is on a mission to defeat the West. This does not include prime Minister Mark Carney who recently informed Canadians that “Muslim values are the same as Canadian values.”
Jonathan Usher says
It appears that our Prime minister is now supporting jihad from within and outside Canada. From taking in immigrants who believe in jihad, to financing Palestinians, to supporting a dying Europe, Carney is leading Canada astray and will probably be elected by our brain -washed electorate at the next election. Meanwhile our smug Conservative party is losing the interest and confidence of most Canadians as it plugs along asking for money at this “crucial” time. A change in direction seems far, far away. Both internal and external support for an Islamic Canada seems imminent.
gravenimage says
Canada Frees ‘Deradicalized’ Al Qaeda Terrorist in Parliament Bomb Plot
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As Robert Spencer says, what could possibly go wrong?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Anyone willing to bet that he will re-offend?
gravenimage says
I would not bet against this, Infidel…
The two threats says
I’m amazed that Mark Carney only allowed a Jihadist like Zakaria Amara out of custody.
I would have thought that Carney would have found a safe seat for Zakaria Amara as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada for the next election.
gravenimage says
This Jihadist thug *is* out on parole, and has not been deported.
Tony says
Islam is a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against Non-Muslims, and Muslim are citizen gang-members of the Ummah, an Islamic State, for life to Allah. The West is oblivious to this fact. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Stop the Public Funding of Islam and its Muslim Organizations!
Public Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Totalitarian Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism against Non-Muslims to make Islamic Law supreme WITH NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law using MUSLIM MONEY and MUSLIM LIVES to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
tgusa says
If the Canadian establishment is itching to get themselves blown up or beheaded should anyone bother getting in the way?
WPM says
The trouble is the average citizen will get beheaded ,or rape ,or blown up and the “Canada Establishment”, like the UK establishment ,or the German and French establishment will not give a damn. The establishment have armed security ,they live in gated communities ,their children go to expensive private schools .They do not have to deal WITH Islamic jihadist everyday non-sense in the work place ,in the community ,in schools.in parks and public areas .It is the every grind of dealing with so many small things ,catcalls to women in the street ,no go zones ,children being harass ,petty vandalism on public and religious property .The noise ,the garbage ,the pimping ,the drug dealing .All increase as Islam increases its power on a community. We the people in the west keep electing these idiots who sell us out on the cheap as the block of Moslems voters grows and Moslem money from many sources buys them off.
tgusa says
Exactly right WPM. However, if that is the way the establishment wants to roll all bets are off. Armed security is fine as long as armed security are not worried about their own families. The establishment types could wake up one morning and find that their horses have all left the barn. I suppose they could all relocate to defined areas and build a giant wall with a moat around it but doing that would isolate them from the average citizen. Wait, that sounds like a good idea.
WPM says
I think many have their own private bunkers and their private jets fuel up for that escape to places like New Zealand .sorry I cannot see them facing the music in French revolution style 1800s close shave at the neck. Sorry if I seem so jaded ,20 years ago I could not even think or take what I say here seriously .These times anything could happen it would not surprise me .The only thing that would surprise me would be a western leader taking these problems on head on .Trump is even appeasing countries like Qatar thinking that the west could get a square deal with them .As America heads towards mid terms we have a communist jihadist as mayor in NYC .Midwest towns and cities turning into no go zones with sharia law about to put into the cities bylaws . The number of jihadist elected to Americas congress increasing and maybe one added to the Senate ,I am really depressed at the people foolishness of people voting blindly democratic party .
tgusa says
Maybe it is just me but trying to hide out in New Zealand sounds like a really bad plan.
gravenimage says
We need to take a stand here before fleeing.
tgusa says
I agree. I’m not going anywhere.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Tgusa!
tgusa says
OK, it is getting really weird up in Canada.
Canadian man wins city council election after telling voters he has no idea what he’s doing, doesn’t enjoy politics, & is unqualified for office.
https://instapundit.com/830224/