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Law Enforcement

Toronto terror arrests and the enduring appeal of ISIS

July 31, 2024 Stewart Bell  

(Global News) The arrest of a father and son accused of planning a mass casualty attack in Toronto on behalf of ISIS suggests the enduring appeal of the terrorist group. Five years after it was defeated in Syria, where it committed scores […]

News: North America

Victim stabbed by alleged ISIS supporter aboard B.C. bus says attack was unprovoked

April 5, 2023 Stewart Bell and Neetu Garcha  

(Global News) The victim slashed in the neck by an alleged ISIS supporter aboard a transit bus in B.C. says the attack was unprovoked. “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” the resident of Surrey, B.C., told his family in text messages written […]

Legal

ISIS supporter pleads guilty to killing Toronto woman with hammer

August 26, 2021 Stewart Bell  

(Global News) A Toronto man who approached a woman on a sidewalk and killed her with a hammer last year pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder and terrorism, admitting he did it for the so-called Islamic State. In an agreed statement of […]

Law Enforcement

Suspect’s alleged statements about ISIS led to terrorism charge over Toronto hammer attack: sources

March 16, 2020 Stewart Bell  

(Global News) Every morning, Hang-Kam Annie Chiu left her basement suite in Scarborough and walked to the local Tim Hortons, where she ordered a large coffee with two creams. She would sit by the window with a group of seniors who met […]

Deradicalization

Canada’s terrorism offenders are coming out of prison still radicalized

February 27, 2020 Stewart Bell  

(Global News) At Suliman Mohamed’s 2016 sentencing for trying to join ISIS, the Ottawa judge presiding over his case did not hold back, scolding those aligned with the terrorist group for “embracing the devil.” Mohamed got seven years. But three years later, […]

Law Enforcement

Man arrested in Toronto hammer attack now facing terrorism-related charge Saad Akhtar, 30, charged with 1st-degree murder in death of Scarborough woman

February 25, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(CBC) A man who was arrested in connection with the death of a 64-year-old woman in Toronto on Friday is now facing a terrorism-related charge. Police said Tuesday that Saad Akhtar, 30, of Toronto had his charges updated to first-degree murder including terrorist activity. […]

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