Informant ‘never discussed’ fertilizer bomb plot with accused in Ottawa ‘terror trial’
CBC News
July 2, 2008
The Crown’s star witness in the trial of the first person charged under Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act told an Ottawa court Wednesday that he never discussed a fertilizer bomb plot with the accused.
The admission at the trial of Mohammad Momin Khawaja came during the defence’s cross-examination of Mohammad Junaid Babar, a former al-Qaeda operative turned police informant.
Khawaja, a 29-year-old Canadian of Pakistani descent, faces seven Canadian charges in a failed 2004 plot to bomb a London nightclub, a shopping centre and several public sites. He has pleaded not guilty and denies being part of the al-Qaeda-inspired plot.
Babar, an FBI informant who has admitted to setting up terrorist training camps in Pakistan, testified he wasn’t even aware of the plot when he met Khawaja on the way to one of the training camps in 2003.
Khawaja’s defence team tried to discredit Babar’s testimony, highlighting discrepancies between what Babar told a British court two years ago and what he told a Canadian court last week, the CBC’s James Cudmore reported from the trial.
Those attending training camp tricked: defence
Defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon suggested the men who attended the training camp in northern Pakistan were tricked by British conspirator Omar Khyam into believing they were going to fight in Afghanistan, not participate in a bomb plot in Britain.
“The trick was to talk about Afghanistan, train these guys for Afghanistan, and not tell them about the U.K. bomb plot,” Greenspon told the court. Babar agreed.
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