RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting
Oh poor Mubin Shaikh. He must cry himself to sleep every night, sitting on his $300,000 paycheque, snorting coke, thinking of the lives he’s destroyed. Perhaps he’ll give the money back, or donate it to these kid’s defence fund. No? Thought not. This will be dragged through the media, out of context half truths occasionally making it to the front page, until the propaganda campaign has had its desired effect. And then it will probably end up in acquittals, buried on the back pages.
The Canadian Press
February 2, 2009
BRAMPTON, Ont. – An RCMP informant who helped thwart a domestic terrorist plot said Monday that he feels guilty about the role he played in recruiting four youths to the group. [Ed. Note: Which engaged in horrific acts, including camping and playing paintball and talking smack around the fire.]
Mubin Shaikh told a Brampton, Ont., court he knew the teens would get caught up in the terrorism investigation as a result.
Mr. Shaikh conceded that he was instrumental in bringing in one of the teens, who was found guilty last fall of terrorism-related offences as part of the so-called Toronto 18.
The defence is seeking to stay the proceedings against the youth on the grounds that he was entrapped by the police agent.
Mr. Shaikh also testified in Ontario Superior Court that he never told the RCMP he thought the youths should not be prosecuted.
He said he tried to explain to his handlers the teens’ limited involvement in the plot, which involved storming Parliament, truck-bombings and hostage takings.
“I tried to impart to them (the RCMP) various degrees of involvement. I’m not the investigator. I said what I could say, considering the role I had,” Mr .Shaikh testified.
He told the court he deliberately imparted a twisted view of extremist Islam to the youngsters as a way to gain the confidence of the group’s co-leaders. [Ed. Note: Who were also RCMP moles.]
He said he “emphasized the militant nature of the jihad” during a lecture he gave at a winter camp in December 2005, where the recruits were taken under the guise of a religious retreat.
Mr. Shaikh also taught them how to fire a weapon, saying he did not think it was illegal to do so, given the circumstances.
The youth, who cannot be identified because he was 17 at the time of his offences, was one of 18 people arrested over the summer of 2006 in connection with the terrorist plot.
Three other youths have since had their charges stayed.
Ten adults, none of whom by court order can be identified, have yet to stand trial.
Mr. Shaikh is expected to be the Crown’s main witness in those cases.
Source | See Also under Terror: Australian ‘terrorist leader’ sentenced to 12 years | Former President Jimmy Carter Supports Call For New 9/11 Investigation | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Publication ban law too broad, top Ontario court rules | Pentagon’s terror ‘recidivism’ claims blasted as ‘propaganda’ | Ex-Guantanamo detainee becomes No. 2 for al-Qaeda in Yemen | Obama shuts network of CIA ‘ghost prisons’ | Swiss nuclear-smuggling suspect says CIA made him do it | Pakistan lauds arrest of 7/7 militants on US tip, Britain denies suspect’s involvement | Israel admits troops used phosphorus shells in Gaza | Woman swats children on plane, charged with Terrorism | Newly Uncovered WTC 7 Video Betrays More Foreknowledge Of Collapse | Khadr trial date up in air after ’secret’ refiling of charges: defence lawyer | Indian Mumbai dossier details gunmen’s calls with handlers | India signs new anti-terror laws in wake of Mumbai attack | Five muslims face life for Fort Dix ‘terror plot’ orchestrated by FBI | FDNY Lieutenant Admitted Plan To ‘Take Down’ WTC 7 | Australian Citizen Journalist Charged for Filming Police under Anti-Terror Law | India to create national spy agency in wake of Mumbai attacks | Conspiracy against Arar reached to highest levels, U.S. court told | Sept. 11 suspects want to “confess” | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | Indian Intelligence Provided SIM Cards to Mumbai Gunmen | CIA Foreknowledge of the Mumbai Attacks | Counterterrorism squad rounds up UK opposition member over whistleblower incident | “Fair-skinned, blonde” assailants began attack in Mumbai | Experts doubt Al Qaeda link in Mumbai attacks | Mumbai Attacks Blamed On Al-Qaeda As Pretext For U.S. Military Response | Terror strikes Mumbai | Former US congresswoman, presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney barred from boarding plane to human rights conference | German Intelligence Agents Caught Staging False Flag Terror in Kosovo | IntelCenter Releases Video of Former CIA Employee Zawahiri Threatening America | Don’t-ask-don’t-tell Policy: Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes | Ottawa moves to block Afghanistan detainee torture hearings again | Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters” | Khawaja radicalized by insurgent dreams, convicted on terror connections but not intent | Tortured trio say report ‘vindicates us’ | China names 8 alleged Olympic terrorists | Ex-CSIS Agent, ‘Security Expert’, Paints Pipeline Explosion as “Terror” | If released, security detainee Almrei to be surveilled, wiretapped, and GPS-tracked | Security expert: Weak accusations against Almrei, held 7 years on security certificate | Activists seen as potential threat to Vancouver Games | Lawyers say UK Guantánamo suspect has no hope of fair trial | Doubt Arises in Account of pre-Olympic ‘Uighur’ Attack in China | Globe: “No evidence” of plot in terror conviction, “wide net” cast by strong new laws | ‘Mens rea’ intention test questioned prior to Toronto 18 terror verdict | Youth found guilty in Toronto terror trial despite RCMP mole’s entrapment role | Feds ordered to share evidence with defence in Harkat security case | American Intelligence Contractors Leak Canadian Toronto 18 ‘Terror Training’ Video to Web | Ottawa balks at travel permit for man trapped in Sudan | Prosecuters fail to secure airborne liquid bomb convictions, conspiracy charges stick | Troops in the Streets: Army Brigades Standing By to Assist in Disasters, Help Quell Dissent | Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops | Canadian troops continue gearing up, to receive US counter-insurgency training | US Government Questioned on Forged Letter Linking Saddam to 9/11 | Crown can’t tie Khawaja to British bomb plot, lawyer argues | Prosecutors weigh options after hung jury in 7/7 UK terror trial | Terrorism claims against Khawaja stunned his ex-fiancée | Terror suspect’s inflammatory personal EMails judged admissable | 3 men plead guilty to lesser charges in ‘liquid bomb’ airline plot | Informant ‘never discussed’ fertilizer bomb plot with accused in Ottawa ‘terror trial’ | Trial of Canadian charged in UK fertilizer bomb plot gets underway | Third Mole Surfacing in Toronto Terror Trial? | Terror case begins to emit ripe aroma | Canada’s anti-terror law unconstitutional, defence says | Toronto’s Terrorism Case: For the Families, Fear and Bewilderment | Terror trial proceedings troubling | FBI Informant in British terror trial given immunity, proceedings raise question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings | Five guilty in UK bomb plot | Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents | Terror accused refuses to discuss links to Pakistan secret service, family threatened | London terror plotter was ‘hardened’ in ISI camp | Fertiliser claim in terror trial | Canadian ‘Terror Plot’ Begins To Unravel | Police arrest terrorist suspects in Toronto | Terror informant names plotters | Former British Ambassador Says Liquid Bomb Terror Alert Is “Propaganda” | British ‘Terror Suspects’ Were in Contact With MI5 | Eight held in British anti-terror raids | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] due to recession | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Anarchists [...]
March 11th, 2009 at 7:20 am
[...] due to recession | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Anarchists [...]
April 11th, 2009 at 10:09 am
[...] due to recession | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Anarchists [...]
April 24th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
[...] Calling the police to account for anti-photography law | Crown seeks lengthy sentence for Khawaja | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Australian ‘terrorist leader’ sentenced to 12 years | Former President Jimmy Carter Supports [...]
May 26th, 2009 at 1:22 am
[...] due to recession | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Anarchists [...]
June 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
[...] Calling the police to account for anti-photography law | Crown seeks lengthy sentence for Khawaja | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Australian ‘terrorist leader’ sentenced to 12 years | Former President Jimmy Carter Supports [...]
July 21st, 2009 at 2:42 am
[...] [...]
August 4th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
[...] [...]
April 29th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
[...] [...]
April 30th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
[...] signs confession, media retreads tales of planned chaos | Toronto 18 member pleads in bomb plot | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | American [...]
June 8th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
[...] signs confession, media retreads tales of planned chaos | Toronto 18 member pleads in bomb plot | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | American [...]
June 12th, 2010 at 4:38 am
[...] signs confession, media retreads tales of planned chaos | Toronto 18 member pleads in bomb plot | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | American [...]
June 25th, 2010 at 1:34 am
[...] signs confession, media retreads tales of planned chaos | Toronto 18 member pleads in bomb plot | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | American [...]
July 21st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
[...] [...]