Zakaria Amara

Zakaria Amara is one of 17 people detained on June 2 and June 3, 2006, in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He and his co-conspirators are alleged to have plotted coordinated terrorist attacks against targets in southern Ontario.

Amara was 20 years old, attending school and working at a gas station, at the time of arrest. He is married with their newborn child.

His solicitor, David Kolinsky, has claimed that Amara was mistreated by a prison guard, after giving a ticklish laugh while being searched.

On September 19, 2006, Amara, was denied bail in a Brampton courtroom.

Charged with four offences under Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act, Amara entered the courtroom at about 9:30AM. He was handcuffed and shackled, but smiled widely behind his thick beard toward his mother, who sat twenty feet away.

The charges include two counts of receiving terrorist training and participating in a terrorist group, one count of recruiting for a terrorist group and one count of intent to set off an explosion with the aim of causing bodily harm or great damage.

As a result of preferred direct indictment by the Crown Attorney on 2007-09-24, Amara was re-arrested and charged with knowingly instructing a person to carry out an activity for the benefit of a terrorist group.cite news
last =Teotonio
first =Isabel
title = Homegrown terror case goes to trial
publisher = The Toronto Star
date = 2007-09-24
url =http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/260004
accessdate = 2007-09-24 ]

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* [http://quranicverse99.tripod.com/pathtoparadise/id22.html Example of his writing on Islamic website in Toronto area.]