A police agent who was paid $4.1 million CAD to infiltrate an alleged terror group testified for the first time on the opening day of the trial for Shareef Abdelhaleem, a member of the so-called Toronto 18. Abdelhaleem, 34, is alleged to have used his friend, undercover police agent Shaher Elsohemy, to set up the…
Muslim Americans in southern California are feeling “anger, disillusionment, and distrust” toward the FBI following reports that it used an informant to infiltrate mosques in Southland, said a local office for the Council on American-Islamic relations. “The American Muslim community has never wavered from its commitment to keeping America safe, nor has it hesitated from…
An RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) informant who helped thwart a domestic terrorist plot said that he feels guilty about the role he played in recruiting four youths to the group. Mubin Shaikh told a Brampton, ON, court he knew the teens would get caught up in the terrorism investigation as a result. Shaikh conceded…
Lawyers for a Canadian youth found guilty of terrorism-related offenses argued that a police informant who infiltrated a home-grown terrorist cell broke the law. The youth in question is one of 18 men arrested in Toronto in 2006 in connection with an alleged plot to truck-bomb nuclear power plants and a building housing Canada’s spy…
A police informant testified last week that the leader of an alleged terrorist plot to attack high-profile Canadian buildings and take members of Parliament hostage was well-developed and widespread. Authorities said that the alleged plotters, who cannot be identified because of a publication ban, wanted Muslim prisoners being held in Afghanistan released. One of the…
