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TERRORISTS SENTENCED IN CANADA: ?Saad Khalid, 23, told a Brampton courtroom he accepted responsibil?

By Glenn Reynolds

TERRORISTS SENTENCED IN CANADA: “Saad Khalid, 23, told a Brampton courtroom he accepted responsibility for his role in the domestic terror plot to detonate bombs outside the Toronto Stock Exchange and CSIS headquarters, as well as an unnamed Ontario military base, in 2006. Khalid said he wanted people to know his true motives: his ‘disagreement’ with Canada’s foreign policy, specifically Afghanistan. ‘I was not motivated by a hate for Canada,’ Khalid read from a prepared speech. ‘I am not a lunatic who is hell-bent on the destruction of western civilization.’” Well that’s a relief. But there’s this: “Khalid was arrested in June 2006 while unloading what he and fellow alleged conspirators believed was two tonnes of ammonium nitrate, according to an uncontested statement of facts entered earlier.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).