(CBC) A Calgary man has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences, admitting to a kidnapping during a year-long stint fighting as a trained sniper with ISIS in Syria.
Hussein Sobhe Borhot, 36, pleaded guilty to participating in terrorist activities outside Canada and committing a crime at the direction of a terrorist organization.
Borhot spent from May 2013 to June 2014 in Syria, after sneaking across the border from Turkey with the help of a Turkish military officer who’d been paid to allow ISIS fighters to cross over.
RCMP worked with the FBI and U.S. Department of Defence throughout the seven-year investigation.
‘I didn’t know better’
When he returned to Calgary, Borhot was the subject of two undercover operations, telling an officer he’d been inspired by the first-person shooter video game Call of Duty.
