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Cry babe: The lawyer defending one of the alleged fertilizer-of-peace bombers says his client never had any intention of engaging in actual violent acts. How could he, when he was a mere “babe in the woods”? From the Toronto Sun:

BRAMPTON -- A young man was more a babe in the woods than a terrorist plotting mayhem in Canada, a trial heard yesterday.

Defence counsel Mitchell Chernovsky described his client as "naive" and "not street smart" about terrorist activities that were a "jihadi fantasy" of the group's leader.

The court has heard the accused attended two camps that are alleged to have provided terrorist training to several young men in rural areas near Washago in December 2005 and outside of Guelph in May 2006.

But Chernovsky argued there is nothing to indicate his client, who was 17 at the time, knew anything about any grand plots to explode bombs on Parliament Hill or blow up RCMP or CSIS headquarters.

"(The leader) made an extreme effort to keep them in the dark, keep them on the down low," Chernovsky told Superior Court Justice John Sproat in his closing argument. "They deliberately kept him out of the loop." …

I hope the Crown points out that the “babe in the woods” argument doesn’t really work for alleged jihadis, since these “babes,” being immature and impressionable, are often the ones who are most easily persuaded to strap on a bomb and martyr themselves for Allah (thinking that the payoff is going to be endless sex with hot, heavenly chicks—a horny male "babe's" dream come true). In our day, alas, the woods are strewn with the bodies of self-detonated “babes” and their victims.

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