- Shareef Abdelhaleem
Muhammad Shareef Abdelhaleem is one of 17 people initially arrested in the
2006 Toronto terrorism arrests . He is alleged to have plotted coordinated bombing attacks against targets in southern Ontario.Born in Egypt, Abdelhaleem moved to Canada with his parents when he was 10 years old.
His father, Tariq Abdelhaleem, is an engineer on contract with
Atomic Energy of Canada , and is well-known for his own writings as anImam , including a fatwa against watering down the message of Islam. He was interviewed prior to his son's arrests, denouncing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=bd31f5c1-3426-43e8-8446-911c2e3e6bf0&k=81005&p=1] Tariq was among those who posted bail forsecurity certificate detaineeMohammad Mahjoub earlier in the year.Shareef was a 30-year-old computer programmer at the time of his arrest, he underwent
open-heart surgery just two months before the arrest. He is alleged to have been brought into the fertilizer purchasing byZakaria Amara . [http://thestar.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20060607/TERRORFAHIM07?section=Legal]External links
* [http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=2043]
* [http://captiveincanada.com] CaptiveInCanada.com - site dedicated to shareef abdelhaleem and rest of captives
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