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Fools on the Hill: Alleged terror plotter Momin Khawaja was angling to have his charge of terrorism dropped, but in a major victory for the crown, the judge in the case has said no can do. The Ottawa Sun article about their home town boy, a whiz with technological gadgetry,  includes an interesting nugget of info I hadn’t heard before (my bolds):

The former Foreign Affairs contract employee faces seven terrorism-related charges, involving his building of a detonator device for use in a U.K. bomb plot, along with offences related to facilitating and financing terrorism in Canada, the U.K. and Pakistan.

Exsqueeze me? You mean old Momin used to work for the feds? Clearly, some better screening is needed to weed out potential jihadis from both contract and full-time positions.

Posted by: scaramouche at 14:57 | link | comments (2)

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#1  08 September 2008 - 19:05

 

This is common knowledge. The question is, to what extent did he use his DFA status to aid and abet his (alleged) malfeasance.

Anonymous

#2  08 September 2008 - 19:43

 

Common knowledge but news to me.

scaramouche

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