This Ongoing War..
28 April '13..
Here's a follow up to "22-Apr-13: Tentacles in Canada, and the Iranians are behind it according to police".
Questions are now being asked in Canada that highlight a series of governmental decisions about one (at least) of the two men accused of plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on an interurban train. They're questions that ought to get some wider airing, and they come from Canada's minister of citizenship and immigration, Jason Kenney.
They are about Raed Jaser, 35, accused along with Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of planning to derail a Via Rail passenger train in what the Canadian authorities are calling an "al-Qaeda supported" attack. Terrorism-related charges [detailed here] have been brought against the two.
From a CBC report, the government minister framed his concerns this way.
Mohamed Jaser, with his wife, his son Jaser and two other children, travelled from Germany where they had been living, equipped with fake French passports, arriving in Canada on March 28, 1993. They applied immediately for asylum as refugees. Jaser was a boy of 10. He had been born in the United Arab Emirates, though he did not hold UAE citizenship.
The family's request for refugee status was denied. They appealed, and must have succeeded because the report says they eventually became Canadian citizens.
Jaser, however, did not - evidently because of a proclivity for engaging in crime. He had acquired five separate fraud-related criminal convictions and was also convicted of making death threats by the time the citizenship application was heard. These offences rendered him ineligible for citizenship.
In 2004, the Canadian government served a deportation order on him. In court - despite the government's claims that he should remain in detention - Jaser's lawyer successfully argued that Jaser could not be deported because, as a Palestinian, he was stateless.
Some time after that, Jaser received a pardon - why is not clear - and granted permanent residency status in Canada.
Kenney says, as minister of citizenship and immigration, that the pardon and permanent residency given as gifts to the accused terrorist happened because of "old policies." Canada had recently legislated the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act, a law designed to make it easier for Canada to expel foreigners who have faced six months or more in jail for a crime committed in Canada.
Some time after Raed Jaser got permanent residence (according to Canada's Global News), his own father
became worried enough about his son’s religious views to ask others in the community for assistance that apparently never came through, and another two before a Toronto imam approached police through a lawyer, concerned about Jaser’s influence on youth. By the summer of 2012, he was under RCMP surveillance as part of an investigation that would ultimately see him and 30-year-old Chiheb Esseghaier arrested, accused of terrorist conspiracy and plotting to attack a passenger train... [more].
The parents' story [source] keeps coming back to their Palestinianism.
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