RCMP informant says accused in militant plot was naiveCBC News
An RCMP informant who infiltrated an alleged homegrown militant group has acknowledged the person now on trial had little or no knowledge of the group's plans.
Mubin Shaikh has been testifying at the trial of a youth who is accused of being part of the militant organization.
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Shaikh told the court on Monday that the young man had no idea what he was getting into when he attended a training session in the snowy woods outside Orillia, Ont., in December, 2005.
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Having recently converted from Hinduism to Islam, the accused was eager to learn. So Shaikh told him the camp was a religious retreat where he would learn about the faith and also test physical skills, as laid out in the Koran.
Shaikh said the accused never heard a word of alleged plans to blow up buildings or behead the prime minister.
Shaikh described the accused as naive in the extreme. He said the youth asked embarrassingly basic questions about Islam. Shaikh said any sophisticated discussion, including that of a jihad, or holy war, would have been totally lost on the accused.
The picture left with the court, so far, is of a youth who had no idea what he was getting into, had no personal or political motives for wanting to attack innocent civilians and was kept in the dark by leaders of the alleged plot.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/06/16/brampton-trial.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r2:c0.130254 Also see this:
1) RCMP Mole confused about whose side he's on ...
Okay, I know I said earlier that I no longer care what the RCMP mole in the Toronto "terror" trials has to say, but look at these two CBC items below! Is Shaikh paid by the RCMP to destroy the prosecution's case?
If so, then it really was all just a media stunt, designed to leave an impression in the minds of Canadians that we should live in fear of homegrown terror and accept fewer freedoms and more surveillance cameras for the sake of "security".
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False pretences is what these guys were arrested under! Shaikh has raised serious doubts as to whether any of the group, other than the agents provocateurs, knew what the heck they were doing camping out in the country in the winter, drawing public attention to themselves.
It's a massive waste of the court's time and taxpayers' dollars just so that an impression of the presence of "homegrown terrorists" can be burned into the minds of lazy journalists and couch potatoes who doze through the TV national news.
If you haven't yet seen the video
http://captiveincanada.com/cms/media0/documetaries/26-interviews-a-documentaries/358-unfair-dealing.html?0bf8c71c4469cdf5154812d825d3b3ee=66f0ec5ff945446c7a2208e3652bc8ed|"Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat"> now might be the time. It will give you a much more complete picture of Shaikh the
http://www.yayacanada.com/068-17.html
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