RCMP make 2nd ‘national security’ arrest in Calgary in 2 months

September 24, 2020   

(Global News) Two months after an alleged former ISIS member was taken into custody in Calgary, the RCMP has confirmed to Global News that it has made another national security arrest in the city.

“I can confirm that an individual was arrested in Calgary today in relation to a national security file,” Alberta RCMP spokesperson Fraser Logan said Thursday.

“We will have more to say in the coming days.”

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said it had “no information [to] provide at this time.”

The arrest followed terrorism charges in July against another Calgary resident, Hussein Sobhe Borhot, who allegedly left Canada in 2013, joined ISIS and returned home in 2014.

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