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Former bomb plot suspect thought arrest was a terrible mistake
When police raided Quayyam Abdul Jamal’s house in the summer of 2006 and arrested him on terrorism charges, he says, he thought it was all just a terrible mistake.
It was the evening of June 2, when hundreds of officers descended on the homes of five youths and 10 men in Toronto and the nearby city of Mississauga, alleging they were all part of a home-grown terror cell. But that evening, Jamal says, he had no idea that he would spend the next year and a half behind bars. The first indication of what lay ahead came when he caught a glimpse of a TV newscast at the police station.
“I saw the TV, and they were saying something about four tons of explosives,” Jamal told CBC News in an interview aired Wednesday.
“That shocked me, and then I realized there’s something serious here I’ve been dragged into.”
The incredible shrinking terror case
Source: Toronto Star - 18-apr-08
Charges stayed against seven (7) of the Toronto-18
Once labelled Canada’s first homegrown, Islamist terror plot, the case of the so-called Toronto 18 is quietly melting away.
With yesterday’s decision to stay charges against four more of those that it had once labelled dangerous terrorists, the federal government is now admitting that it never had a serious case against almost half of the men and youths charged two years ago.
So far, the Crown has stayed charges against seven of the 18 Toronto-area Muslim males. While technically, that means it could re-lay charges within a year, legal experts call such a move unlikely.
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