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Gov't mole provided Canadian passports to alleged terrorist
Neal Hall and Chad Skelton
Edmonton Journal
Friday, November 30, 2001
An Algerian man in custody in Vancouver who is wanted in the U.S. on
terrorism charges sent money and forged Canadian passports to Germany in
October 1999, according to Canadian immigration documents obtained Thursday.
The documents allege that Samir Ait Mohamed sent the four Canadian passports
to individuals who trained with convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam at a
terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
"Ahmed Ressam solicited the help of Samir Ait Mohamed to obtain genuine
passports from an individual working inside the passport agency," states an
affidavit by Seattle FBI agent Fred Humphries included in hundreds of pages
of documents obtained by the Vancouver Sun.
"The passports were to be used by a team of terrorists who intended to enter
the U.S, with those passports to conduct terrorist attacks within the U.S.,"
the affidavit says.
And a terrorism specialist with the FBI testified at Mohamed's detention
review hearing last July 31 in Vancouver that Mohamed was involved in a plot
to plant a bomb on a gasoline truck and blow up a Jewish neighbourhood in
Montreal.
The revelations were among hundreds of pages of documents released Thursday
by Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board.
© Copyright 2001 Edmonton Journal
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