- Fahim Ahmad
Fahim Ahmad is one of 18 people arrested in the
2006 Toronto terrorism arrests . He was 21 years old at the time of arrest, and married with two children. [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060612.wxterror12/BNStory/National/home "Globe and Mail" 12 June 2006] ]He was attending
Meadowvale Secondary School with fellow suspectsSaad Khalid andZakaria Amara . Friends suggest that he made statements supporting theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks . [ [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/06/16/to-bombplot20060616.html CBC.ca 16 June 2006] ]He reportedly handed out
DVD s extolling the virtues of Jihadist martyrs at theSalaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto. [ [http://www.macleans.ca/shared/print.jsp?content=20060619_128953_128953 Macleans.ca 19 June 2006] ]Ahmad is charged with receiving and providing terrorist training, and intent to harm or kill with explosives. He is being represented by attorney
Dennis Edney .Internet useage
Ahmad had been under surveillance since 2002, when the 17-year old's internet useage demonstrated that he was in contact with "jihadists in
Alberta ." [ [http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/torontoterror/timeline.html CBC.ca "fifth estate"] ] [ [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/about/episodes/602_transcript.html PBS.org] ]In 2004, the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) noticed that he joined hadClearguidance.com a year earlier [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20060819.TERRORFRONT19%2FTPStory%2FFront&ord=60951522&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true "Globe and Mail" 19 August 2006] ] , an "anti-Western" website on which he logged 754 posts [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060819.wterrorahmad0818/BNStory/National "Globe and Mail" 19 August 2006] ] .Among his posts were statements like:
"Parents' anti-jihad/anti-'religiousness' talks are starting to effect [...] come on bros, i need some jihad talks, anything! its like so dead my sources for videos is no more either, [...] i know u guys can hook me up."
"Now a days, for the most part, parents dont practice their [religion] much to begin with, and when a kid says, 'o mommy, daddy, i want to fight for ALLAH' automatically they say "NO! U WILL GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE A FUTURE."
When moderator Salmaan Ziauddin resigned from the website, CSIS approached him several times, asking about specific members of the website, including Ahmad and
Zakaria Amara . [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060819.wterrorahmad0818/BNStory/National "Globe and Mail" 19 August 2006] ]Ahmad's wife, Mariya, was a student at the
University of Toronto and went by the online moniker "Zawjatu Faheem" [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060629.wblog29/BNStory/National/home "Globe and Mail" 29 June 2006] ]References
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