Canada jails Toronto truck bomb plotter Zakaria Amara

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Source: bbc

One of the key figures in a conspiracy to set off three truck bombs in eastern Canada has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Zakaria Amara, 24, pleaded guilty in October to co-leading the Islamist militant group dubbed the Toronto 18.

The group's targets included the city's stock exchange and a military base.

Sentencing Amara, who was arrested in 2006, Ontario judge Bruce Durno said that he had planned the most horrific crime in Canadian history.

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1. How did they get info on him? Waterboarding? Wires to the scrotum?

And was he tried in a secret military tribunal to ensure a conviction?

That's what DICK would do.

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2. Infiltration, undercover work, I believe.

On edit: Yeah, here it is. Not fond of the sting part tho.

Police had Mr. Amara under constant surveillance in Mississauga during the months leading up to his arrest, catching him in a relentless pursuit of a singular goal: He wanted to build truck bombs and explode them in downtown Toronto.

The RCMP, the federal police agency that spent millions pursuing the case, ultimately used an expensive sting operation to ensnare Mr. Amara and his accomplices – paying two Muslim infiltrators millions to unfurl the plot.


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