Toronto Muslim Religious Leader Helped Canadian Officials Arrest 17

[Christian Science Monitor] Rebecca Cook Dube - 17 men were arrested last month after buying three tons of ammonium nitrate, a common bomb-making ingredient, and are alleged by police to have planned to blow up Toronto buildings and storm Canada's parliament. Mubin Shaikh, a prominent Muslim leader, has revealed himself to several media outlets as the one who infiltrated the group at the request of the police. "I wanted to prevent the loss of life," Shaikh told the Toronto Star. "I don't want Canadians to think that these [suspects] are what Muslims are. I don't believe in violence here."


2006-07-31 01:00:00

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