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Canadian Terrorists "Motivated by Islamic Extremism" Planned to Attack Passenger Train
(Globe and Mail-Canada) Diana Mehta - Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier, accused of planning a terrorist attack on a passenger train traveling between Canada and the U.S., were motivated by Islamic extremism and spent months plotting to murder as many people as they could, their trial heard on Monday. Esseghaier, a Tunisian national doing doctoral research in Quebec, traveled to Iran in 2012 and met with people who were, in his words, "carrying out jihad for the sake of Allah," said Crown lawyer Croft Michaelson. Jaser, a permanent resident of Palestinian descent, got involved with Esseghaier and wanted to "conduct multiple missions." "Esseghaier explained that their plan was to make a five-to-six-meter hole in a railway bridge, which would cause a 'big accident.'" Jaser also told an undercover officer of a plan to use a sniper to target leaders in Canada.