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Written by MICHAEL FRISCOLANTI
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Friday, 01 August 2008 18:41 |
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 Source: Macleans - 23-jul-08
$2.4-million Raise?Two years ago, when Mubin Shaikh first went public with his tale of anti-terror espionage, he was candid about his compensation. He told Canadians the RCMP paid him a cool $300,000 to spy on the "Toronto 18," a group of young, tough-talking Muslims who liked to camp in the snow (and allegedly plot jihad). But Shaikh insisted, over and over, that cash was not his motivation. He went undercover to protect his country and his religion, not to line his pockets. "I didn't do it for the money," he said shortly after the arrests. "I'm not going to negotiate with the lives of Canadians."
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Written by Thomas Walkom
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Friday, 04 July 2008 20:57 |
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Source: Toronto Star - 19-jun-08 By, in effect, labelling its own star witness a liar, the government has delivered a devastating blow to its entire case in the so-called Toronto 18 terror plot. In a remarkable exchange yesterday at the Brampton courthouse, Crown prosecutor John Neander accused RCMP informer Mubin Shaikh of confecting evidence to protect the sole youth still facing charges in what the government calls Canada's first homegrown Islamist terror plot. "That's why you maintain this incorrect pretext (that the youth didn't know about the alleged plot)," the usually soft-spoken Neander roared. Earlier, he called portions of Shaikh's testimony an "invention" which contradicted testimony that the mole made under oath in previous court proceedings. In any trial, it is not uncommon for lawyers to accuse witnesses of lying. But it is unusual for the Crown to try to discredit its own witness.
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Written by Shannon Kari
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Friday, 04 July 2008 20:53 |
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Source: National Post - 4-jul-08 Star witness says suspect didn't know camp's aim The outspoken civilian police agent and key prosecution witness who infiltrated an alleged Toronto-area terror cell stated yesterday that he does not believe the Crown has proven its case against the youth on trial. "There is a reasonable doubt," said Mubin Shaikh, 32, after he pleaded guilty to a threatening charge as a result of an unrelated dispute in April, 2007, with two 12-year-old girls who he claimed were swarming his children. In a wide-ranging and unusual discussion with the media outside court, Mr. Shaikh criticized the Crown in the "Toronto 18" terror prosecutions, defended his credibility and lamented the general lack of respect by young people for adults. He made it clear that he believes the youth on trial in Ontario Superior Court on a charge of participating in the activities of a terrorist group should be acquitted.
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Written by SAM PAZZANO
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Friday, 04 July 2008 20:39 |
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Source: Toronto Sun - 4-jul-08 RCMP snitch said he'd 'chop legs'A highly paid police informant and key prosecution witness in the Brampton terror trial pleaded guilty yesterday to threatening bodily harm against two 12-year-old girls who taunted him. Mubin Shaikh, 32, received a conditional discharge -- which means he'll have no criminal record for vowing to "chop the legs off" the school girls in an Etobicoke neighbourhood last April. Crown attorney Laurie Gonet said the two Grade 7 students were returning from lunch to the Kane Senior Middle School when they became involved in an argument with Shaikh. The 32-year-old Shaikh received more than $300,000 from the RCMP to infiltrate the alleged Toronto-area terror conspiracy that made international news when it was revealed two years ago.
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Written by DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
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Friday, 04 July 2008 20:35 |
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Source: Globe & Mail - 4-jul-08 Terror-case informant puts Crown on notice, after his own brush with court systemAn RCMP mole and star witness in a terrorism case defiantly warned prosecutors against attacking him at the coming trials of the 10 key "Toronto 18" suspects. Police informant Mubin Shaikh said yesterday that he was "nobody's shill." Two weeks earlier, the Crown pounced on him at the trial of a youth on terrorism charges for contradicting statements he had made at a previous hearing. His warning to prosecutors came outside a Toronto court minutes after he pleaded guilty to threatening a pair of 12-year-old girls in April, 2007, in his Etobicoke neighbourhood. Mr. Shaikh, a devout Muslim who was paid $300,000 by the RCMP to infiltrate an alleged terrorist cell, said a group of preteens had "swarmed" his two children, and when the group did not back off at his request, he threatened two girls. Mr. Shaikh pleaded guilty to telling the girls, "Do you know who I am? I'm going to chop off your legs!"
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