- Algeria: Abdelmalek Droukdel
- Australia: Mohamed Haneef
- Australia: Shane Kent et al.
- Australia: Belal Khazaal
- Australia: Faheem Lodhi
- Australia: Izhar Ul-Haque
- Bahrain: Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy et al.
- Bosnia: Mirsad Bektasevic et al.
- Bahrain: Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy et al.
- Canada: Abu Sufian Al-Salamabi Muhammed Ahmed 'Abd Al-Razziq
- Canada: Fahim Ahmad et al.
- Canada: Hassan Almrei
- Canada: Adil Charkaoui
- Canada: Mohamed Harkat
- Canada: Mourad Ikhlef
- Canada: Mahmoud Jaballah
- Canada: Moussa Mohamed Kalifa
- Canada: Abdullah Ahmed Khadr
- Canada: Mohammad Momin Khawaja
- Canada: Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub
- Canada: Said Namouh
- Canada: Mohammad Ashraf Siddiqui
- England: Bilal Abdullah
- England: Ismail Abdurahman et al.
- England: Sabeel Ahmed
- England: Raingzieb Ahmed
- England: Omar Altimimi
- England: Sajid Badat
- England: Dhiren Barot el al.
- England: Brahim Benmerzouga & Baghdad Meziane
- England: Kamel Bourgass
- England: Omar Brooks et al.
- England: Abdullah al-Faisal
- England: Yeshiemebet Girma et al.
- England: Mohamed Hamid et al.
- England: Farid Hilali
- England: Tanvir Hussain et al.
- England: Andrew Ibrahim
- England: Muktar Said Ibrahim et al.
- England: Aabid Khan et al.
- England: Mohammed Ajmal Khan
- England: Parviz Khan et al.
- England: Omar Khyam et al.
- England: Krenar Lusha et al.
- England: Samina Malik
- England: Abu Bakr Mansha
- England: Abu Hamza al-Masri
- England: Yassin Nassari
- England: Omar Othman
- England: Sohail Qureshi
- England: Abdul Rahman
- England: Kazi Rahman
- England: Mizanur Rahman et al.
- England: Lofti Raissi v. Metropolitan Police
- England: Mohamed Raissi v. Metropolitan Police
- England: Irfan Raja et al.
- England: Nicky Reilly
- England: Andrew Rowe
- England: Younis Tsouli et al.
- European Union Court of Justice: Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission
- Guantanamo Bay: Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer.
- Guantanamo Bay: Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani
- Guantanamo Bay: Ali Abdul Aziz Ali
- Guantanamo Bay: Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul
- Guantanamo Bay: Sufyian Barhoumi
- Guantanamo Bay: Ramzi Binalshibh
- Guantanamo Bay: Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek Bin 'Attash
- Guantanamo Bay: Jamil el-Banna
- Guantanamo Bay: Ali Abdul Aziz Ali
- Guantanamo Bay: Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi
- Guantanamo Bay: Omar Deghayes
- Guantanamo Bay: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
- Guantanamo Bay: Salim Hamdan
- Guantanamo Bay: Mohammed Hashim
- Guantanamo Bay: Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi
- Guantanamo Bay: Mohammed Jawad
- Guantanamo Bay: Mohamed al Kahtani
- Guantanamo Bay: Mohammed Kamin
- Guantanamo Bay: Omar Ahmed Khadr
- Guantanamo Bay: Binyam Ahmed Mohamed
- Guantanamo Bay: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Guantanamo Bay: Noor Uthman Muhammed
- Guantanamo Bay: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
- Guantanamo Bay: Jabran Said Bin al Qahtani
- Guantanamo Bay: Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi
- Guantanamo Bay: Abdeneur Samuer
- Guantanamo Bay: Ghassan Abudllah al Sharbi
- Guantanamo Bay: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Guantanamo Bay: Noor Uthman Muhammed
- Guantanamo Bay: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
- Guantanamo Bay: Jabran Said Bin al Qahtani
- Guantanamo Bay: Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi
- Guantanamo Bay: Abdeneur Samuer
- Guantanamo Bay: Ghassan Abudllah al Sharbi
- Ireland: Abbas Boutrab
- Israel: Jamal Akal
- Israel: Hassan Yonas Awis
- Israel: Marwan Barghoutil
- Ireland: Said Maduhi
- Israel: Mousa Abu Marzook
- Israel: Union of Good
- Kuwait: Revival of Islamic Heritage Society
- Pakistan: Al Rashid Trust
- Pakistan: Muhammed Saeed et al.
- Philippines: Angelo Ramirez Trinidad et al.
- Scotland: N.A.K.
- Scotland: Mohamed Atif Siddique
- Scotland: Saber Zeghdaou
- Singapore: Muhammad Zamri bin Abdullah et al.
- Singapore: Abdul Rashid bin Anwarul et al.
- Singapore: Mas Selamat bin Kastari
- Singapore: Rijal Yadribin Jumari
- Somalia: Al-Shabaab
- Syria: Abu Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih et al.
- Syria/Iraq: Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi et al.
- Syria/Iran: Al-Zawra Television et al.
- Uzbekistan: Najmiddin Kamolitdinovich Jalolov and Suhayl Fatilloevich Buranov
- Venezuela: Ghazi Nasr al Din and Fawzi Kan'an
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- Abdelmalek Droukdel (Algeria):
- U.S. Treasury Department Press Release: Specially Designated Global Terrorist (Added 12/4/07) According to Treasury, Droukdel, the leader of Al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), "reportedly supervised the April 2007 AQIM bombings of the Prime Minister's office and police facilities in Algiers, killing 33. AQIM merged with Al-Qaida in September 2006. For background, see the NEFA Special Report, "Two Decades of Jihad in Algeria: the GIA, the GSPC, and Al-Qaida."
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- Mohamed Haneef - Now-Cleared London/Glasgow Suspect - Operation Seagram (Australia):
- Transcript of Press Conference Held by Australian Federal Police Commission (AFP) Mick Keelty on Haneef Charges On July 14, 2007, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty announced that Dr. Mohamed Haneef had been charged with providing support to a terrorist group, in connection with his alleged role in the London/Glasgow plots.
- Australian Federal Police Press Release on Inaccurate Reports re: Haneef's Purported Involvement in Gold Coast Attack On July 22, 2007, the AFP issued a press release stating "the Australian Federal Police (AFP) state that media reporting today of Dr Mohamed Haneef’s alleged involvement in a plot to conduct an attack on the Gold Coast is inaccurate."
- Australian Federal Police Press Release on Media Reports re: Police Notes in Haneef's Diary A July 23, 2007 AFP press release notes that "media reporting today alleging that AFP members have made handwritten notes in the diary of Dr Haneef is not correct."
- Australian Federal Police Press Release on Withdrawal of Charges On July 27, 2007, the AFP announced it was withdrawing the charges filed against Haneef.
- Australian Department of Immigration & Citizenship Dossier This document notes that Haneef is associated "with two of the United Kingdom suspects [Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed] believed to be involved in the London incident and the Glasgow bombings." The dossier also provides a wealth of background information on Haneef.
- Australian Federal Police Interview Transcript I This is an 142-page transcript of a July 3, 2007 AFP interview of Haneef.
- Australian Federal Police Interview Transcript II This is a 378-page transcript of a July 13-14, 2007 AFP interview of Haneef.
- Australian Federal Police Emails These are internal AFP emails, released under the Freedom of Information Act, discussing the plan of action for handling the Haneef case.
- Australian Federal Police Press Release Stating Haneef is not a Person of Interest (Added 8/29/08) After an extensive investigation (see interview transcript #1 and interview transcript #2), the Australian Federal Police (AFP) determined that Dr. Mohamed Haneef is no longer a "person of interest" in the London/Glasgow Plots. AFP stated, "The Australian Federal Police (AFP) can confirm that today it advised Mr Rod Hodgson, Solicitor acting on behalf of Dr Mohamed Haneef, that the AFP has recently informed the Attorney-General and the Minister for Home Affairs that Dr Haneef is no longer a person of interest."
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- Shane Kent et al. - Operation Pendennis (Australia):
- Australian Federal Police Press Release on Charges On November 17, 2005, Australian authorities arrested seventeen individuals in News South Wales and Victoria and charged them with an array of offences, including Acts in Preparation of a Terrorist Act and being a member of a Terrorist Group. Alleged cell members reportedly trained for jihad at camps in Victoria’s remote bush land and at a New South Wales cattle station. Following the arrests, New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney commented, “I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a terrorist attack or the launch of a terrorist attack in Australia.”
- Australian Federal Police Press Release on Additional Arrests In March 2006, three Melbourne men were arrested in connection with the Operation Pendennis probe. According to the press release, "All three men were charged with intentional membership of a terrorist organisation under section 102.3(1) of the Criminal Code Act of 1995 and intentionally make funds available to a terrorist organisation under section 102.6(1) of the Act."
- Attorney General on Case Status This document lists the individuals charged in the investigation.
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- Belal Khazaal (Australia):
- New South Wales Supreme Court: Judgment - On Motion for Access to Documents This October 2006 ruling by the New South Wales Supreme Court dismissed a motion by the Australian government seeking "to obtain a permanent injunction to restrain Adam Houda and Peter Lange from continuing to act for Belal Saadallah Khazaal ('the accused') in relation to his trial on two charges alleging the commission of terrorist offences." Khazaal has been charged with two offences "the first was a charge that he made a document between 20 and 23 September 2003, namely, a book, connected with preparation for, the engagement of a person in, or assistance in a terrorist act, knowing of that connection. The second charge was that between 22 September 2003 and May 2004, the accused incited the commission by others of an offence, namely an offence of engaging in a terrorist act, contrary to s 101 of the Criminal Code."
- New South Wales Supreme Court: Judgment - Application to Restrain Counsel and Solicitor In December 2006, another government motion seeking to "restrain" Peter Lange and Adam Houda from representing Khazaal was dismissed.
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- Faheem Lodhi (Australia):
- Australian Federal Police Annual Report 2005-2006 Discussing Conviction In April 2004, Faheem Lodhi -- a Pakistani-born Australian citizen who conspired with Lashkar-e-Taiba trained terrorist Willie Brigitte -- was arrested and charged with terrorism offences. According to authorities, Lodhi possessed two maps of the Australian electricity supply system in connection with a plan to bomb that system. Similarly, he possessed aerial photographs of Australia defense establishments in connection with a bomb plot targeting those locations. He also "sought information concerning the availability of materials capable of being used for the manufacture of explosives." Finally, he possessed a "document containing information concerning the ingredients for and the method of manufacture of poisons, explosives, detonators and incendiary devices and concerning 'intelligence' which was connected with preparation for a terrorist act..." In June 2006, Lodhi was found guilty of three terrorism offences.
- New South Wales Supreme Court: Judgment (On Notice of Motion re: Indictment) In December 2005, the New South Wales Supreme Court adjourned a Notice of Motion until January 2006. This document summarizes some of the evidence against Lodhi: "The Crown case is that the accused provided Brigitte with a pre-paid mobile telephone service in a false name...The Crown alleges that the accused assisted Brigitte after his arrival in Sydney, particularly with accommodation...Brigitte had also shown the accused a map of Australian Nuclear sites (which the accused borrowed for a period of time) and which was subsequently found in Brigitte’s possession. There will also be evidence of material found at Brigitte’s premises after his arrest, which demonstrated not only an interest in nuclear sites but also other material relating to military and intelligence issues."
- New South Wales Supreme Court: Judgment - Motion for Declaration that Part 3 of the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 is Invalid In February 2006, the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that the "third challenge to the constitutional validity of Part 3 of the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 should fail."
- New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal: Judgment In April 2006, the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal refused to dismiss the indictment against Lodhi.
- New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal: Judgment In another April 2006 ruling, the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal rejected a different Lodhi challenge to the government's case.
- New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal: Judgment Rejecting Lodhi's appeal of his conviction and sentence in December 2007, the court ruled that Lodhi secured maps "in connection with a proposal for an enterprise that would involve bombing part of the Australian Electricity Supply System." Moreover, according to the court, "there was ample evidence...that the appellant held his intentions with great vigour and firmness as a consequence of deeply fanatical views."
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- Izhar Ul-Haque (Australia):
- New South Wales Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating ASIO Interviews In November 2007, the Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that two November 2003 ASIO interviews of Izhar Ul-Haque -- a medical student at the University of New South Wales who allegedly trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba and was associated with convicted terrorist Faheem Lodhi -- were inadmissible. The court stated, "I am satisfied that...[ASIO agents] B15 and B16 committed the criminal offences of false imprisonment and kidnapping at common law and also an offence under s86 of the Crimes Act 1900. It follows, a fortiori, that they committed the tort of false imprisonment. Their conduct was grossly improper and constituted an unjustified and unlawful interference with the personal liberty of the accused." The charges against Ul-Haque were dropped.
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- Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy et al. (Bahrain):
- U.S. Treasury Department Press Release: Specially Designated Global Terrorist (Added 12/4/07) The U.S. Treasury Department designated Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy, 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali, and Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khaliq for providing financial and material support to Al-Qaida. As Treasury explained, "Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy and 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali were convicted by the Bahraini High Criminal Court in January 2008 for financing terrorism, undergoing terrorist training, facilitating the travel of others abroad to receive terrorist training, and for membership in a terrorist organization. Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khaliq was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January 2007 on charges of being a member of the terrorist groups al Qaida and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)."
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- Mirsad Bektasevic et al. (Bosnia):
- Indictment Filed in April 2006, this indictment alleges that the cell, which was composed of a Swedish citizen, a Turkish national, and three Bosnians, planned “to commit a terrorist act in…Bosnia and Herzegovina or some other European country” to force the withdrawal of “forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.” According to the indictment, when Bosnian authorities raided an apartment where some of the cell members were staying, they discovered a pistol with a silencer, ammunition, a “video recording displaying how to make an improvised explosive device,” and an audiotape containing the following message: “These brothers are ready to attack and inshallah, they will attack Al-Qufar who are killing our brothers and Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Shishahn and many other countries. These weapons are going to be used against Europe, against those whose forces are in Iraq and in Afghanistan.” Cell members also acquired at least twenty kilograms of explosives, which two of the men “partially cut, shaped and prepared for the…suicide belt.” While investigators never explicitly identified a target, media reports speculated the target may have been the British Embassy in Sarajevo.
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Press Release on Indictment
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Press Release on Not Guilty Pleas All of the accused, except Amir Bajir, pled not guilty at a May 3, 2006 hearing.
- Verdict Mirsad Bektasevic was convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to fifteen years and four months in prison. Abdulkadir Cesur was found guilty of terrorism charges and sentenced to thirteen years and four months in jail. Bajro Ikanvic was convicted of terrorism counts and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. Senad Hasanovic was convicted of illicit possession of weapons or explosives and received a two year and six month jail term. The verdicts were rendered in January 2007.
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Press Release on Convictions and Sentencing
- Modified Verdict Mirsad Bektasevic's sentence was reduced to eight years and four months in prison. Abdulkadir Cesur's jail term was shortened to six years and six months in prison. Bajro Ikanvic was given four years imprisonment. And Senad Hasanovic was re-sentenced to six months in jail. The modified verdicts were announced in June 2007.
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Press Release on Modified Verdict
- NEFA Foundation "Target: America" Report "Irhaby007's American Connections" A key figure in the Bosnian cell was Swedish citizen Mirsad Bektasevic, who used the Internet name “Maximus” and whose voice “more than rather likely” was on the tape threatening attacks. Bektasevic reportedly served as an online recruiter for the Iraqi jihad and communicated via email with convicted British jihadi webmaster Younis Tsouli (a.k.a Irhaby007) and his British co-conspirators. Further, the Bosnian indictment notes that both Tsouli and Waseem Mughal “were in possession of a Swedish telephone number…and Bosnian telephone number…used by” Bektasevic.
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- Abu Sufian Al-Salamabi Muhammed Ahmed 'Abd Al-Razziq (Canada):
- U.S. Treasury Department Press Release: Specially Designated Global Terrorist In July 2006, Treasury named Al-Razziq, a Canadian and Sudanese citizen, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, noting, "`Abd Al-Razziq has provided administrative and logistical support to al Qaida, and has been identified as being close to Abu Zubayda, a former lieutenant of Usama bin Ladin, involved in al Qaida recruitment and training."
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- Fahim Ahmad et al. - Project OSage (Canada):
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release on Charges In June 2006, Canadian authorities arrested seventeen individuals on terrorism-related charges.
- Transcript of Royal Canadian Mounted Police News Conference Elaborating on the charges against the Canadian cell, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell told the media that these “individuals…were planning to commit a series of terrorist attacks against solely Canadian targets in southern Ontario.” He added, “this group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices. To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate. This group posed a real and serious threat. It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks.” Media reports have speculated that the cell considered an array of plots, including a plan to behead Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Toronto office of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release on Additional Charges In August 2006, Alkhalel Mohammed Aboud was charged in connection with the Project OSage probe.
- NEFA Foundation "Target: America" Report "Irhaby007's American Connections" In March 2005, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, who were indicted in Georgia in July 2006 for providing material support to terrorists, traveled to Toronto “to meet with likeminded Islamic extremists.” According to court filings, the men stayed until March 13th and “met regularly with at least three subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation.” Press reports have identified two of those individuals as Fahim Ahmad and Jahmaal James, both of whom were charged in the Project OSage probe. Further, Ahmed and Sadequee “stayed with an individual with whom they were conspiring concerning…plots against civilian and military installations in the United States.” During interviews with FBI agents, Ahmed admitted that while in Canada the men “discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike, to include oil refineries and military bases.” The Ahmed indictment notes that after returning from Canada, Ahmed and Sadequee specifically talked about “the possibility of attacking Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia.” Court filings allege that while in Canada, the men “also plotted how to disable the Global Positioning System in an effort to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic.”
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- Reasons for Order and Order In December 2005, Hassan Almrei, a Syrian national detained in Canada on a Security Certificate, requested to be released from detention. A judge ruled, "in balancing the interests of national security and personal liberty, I conclude that his release is not appropriate at this time." A Senior CSIS analyst testified before the court that "Almrei continues to pose a threat to the security of Canada. That is based, in part, on his past activities both in having participated in a jihad and in his participation in document forgery." Another CSIS analyst testified that "Almrei has a pedigree as an individual who has been in Afghanistan, who has been through training camps, who has been a member of the paramilitary forces of Ibn Khattab in Tajikistan and has experience as a foot soldier."
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- Reasons for Judgment In this December 2004 ruling, a Canadian court addressed the case of Adil Charkaoui, a permanent resident arrested in May 2003 on a Security Certificate. The government believes that "the appellant is a member of the terrorist organization of Osama Bin Laden and that he has engaged, is engaging or will engage in terrorist activities." The court ruled that "we are of the opinion that the conclusions of the designated judge must be upheld and that the appeal should be dismissed with costs."
- Supreme Court Ruling This ruling concluded that the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27 (“IRPA”) "unjustifiably violates s. 7 of the Charter by allowing the issuance of a certificate of inadmissibility based on secret material without providing for an independent agent at the stage of judicial review to better protect the named person’s interests. I also conclude that some of the time limits in the provisions for continuing detention of a foreign national violate ss. 9 and 10(c) because they are arbitrary."
- Supreme Court Ruling (Added 7/5/08) Canada's Supreme Court ruled that CSIS had erred in destroying notes it took during interviews of Adil Charkaoui, a Canadian permanent resident arrested in May 2003 on a Security Certificate and an alleged member of Al-Qaida: "the destruction by CSIS officers of their operational notes compromises the very function of judicial review. To uphold the right to procedural fairness of people in C’s position, CSIS should be required to retain all the information in its possession and to disclose it to the ministers and the designated judge." However, "the application for a stay of proceedings is dismissed."
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- Reasons for Order This March 2005 ruling explains why Harkat's Security Certificate is "reasonable." Harkat was first detained in December 2002. According to CSIS, "prior to arriving in Canada, Mr. Harkat engaged in terrorism by supporting terrorist activity, but he concealed from Canadian authorities that he had supported Islamic extremists and travelled to Afghanistan. He is a supporter of Afghani, Pakistani and Chechen extremists. Mr. Harkat supported terrorist activity as a member of the terrorist group known as the Bin Laden Network, which includes Al Qaida. Before and after he arrived in Canada Mr. Harkat was and is linked to individuals believed to be in this network." Further, "Mr. Harkat was a supporter of the Front islamique du salut ('FIS') in Algeria. When the FIS severed its links with the Groupe islamique armée ('GIA'), he indicated that his loyalties were with the GIA." Finally, "Mr. Harkat has associated with Abu Zubaida since the early 1990s...In March 2003, the service was advised that Abu Zubaida was able to identify Mr. Harkat by his physical description and his activities, including the fact that Mr. Harkat operated a guest house in Peshawar, Pakistan in the mid 1990s for mujahedeen travelling to Chechnya."
- Order Denying Release from Detention This December 2005 ruling notes that Harkat was also employed by the Muslim World League in Pakistan. Justice Dawson mused, “it is again difficult to believe that someone in Mr. Harkat's circumstance would be paid $18,000 U.S. while working in a refugee camp in Pakistan." Additionally, Harkat traveled "from Ottawa to Toronto, by van, with Ahmed Khadr, a high ranking associate of Osama Bin Laden..." The judge dismissed Harkat's application for release from detention.
- Order Releasing Harkat from Detention In May 2006, a judge ruled, "there has been an unexplained delay in the process necessary to determine whether Mr. Harkat may be removed from Canada. This delay has prolonged Mr. Harkat’s detention and constitutes a distinct departure from the circumstances previously before the Court. It follows that this second application for release is properly brought by Mr. Harkat." Harkat was thus ordered released if he abided by a number of conditions.
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- Reasons for Order and Order Ikhlef was detained on a security certificate due to his alleged ties to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and Ahmed Ressam. The court ruled in this document, "Said Atmani, Fatah Kamel, Adel Boumezbeur and Ahmed Ressam were all members of the same group of friends who met quite regularly in various apartments in Montréal. Mourad Ikhlef and his brother and Abdel Boumezbeur, all of whom testified at the hearing, also belonged to the group. It is worth noting that these four individuals, the ones named at the beginning of the paragraph, were found guilty by a French court of, inter alia, criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism. Participation as an alleged member of a cell of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Montréal must not be taken lightly." The court added, "the information that I had the opportunity to consider in camera and that I am not at liberty to disclose unequivocally supports the opinion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mourad Ikhlef was and still is a member of a terrorist group whose ramifications extend to the other terrorist organizations referred to earlier, inducing the organizations connected with Osama Bin Laden." In 2003, he was deported to Algeria.
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- Mahmoud Jaballah (Canada):
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice: The Ruling on the Application to Stay the Habeas Corpus Proceedings This August 2005 ruling notes that "Mahmoud Es-Sayyid Jaballah is believed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Solicitor General to be a member of the Egyptian Al Jihad who is in close contact with persons who are leaders of that organization." Jaballah was initially detained on a Security Certificate in March 1999; a new Security Certificate was issued in August 2001 based on new information. That new information included: "the presence of Mr. Jaballah's telephone number in the possession of Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub, a senior member of the Egyptian Al-Jihad and the Vanguards of Conquest, organizations that explicitly advocate violence as a means of establishing an Islamic state; information that Mr. Jaballah spent time in Afghanistan; and the information that certain people who had contact with Mr. Jaballah were active operatives with senior responsibility in Egyptian Al-Jihad and Al Qaeda, some of whom were involved in communications concerning the terrorist bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998."
- Reasons for Order: Regarding Continuing Detention and the Charter This February 2006 ruling dismissed Jaballah's application for release from detention, as a judge concluded that "Jaballah continues to be a danger to national security." This document reveals that "there are telephone records of some 75 calls from his telephone to London England, mainly to the International Office for Defence of the Egyptian People, believed to be an office with an operational link for Al Qaeda."
- Reasons for Order and Order: Re Lawfulness of September 23, 2005 Decision on Application for Protection This March 2006 ruling established "that the decision of September 23, 2005 denying Mr. Jaballah’s application for protection was lawfully made."
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- Moussa Mohamed Kalifa (Canada):
- Immigration and Refugee Board Adjudication Division: Decision This October 2001 summarizes the case against Kalifa noting: "We then heard from the assistant chief of the anti-terrorism section of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. According to that witness, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had information that Mr. Kalifa is a member of a fighting Islamic group, the FIG in Libya. Moreover, on August 6, 2001, the Intelligence Service received information from the Italian authorities that Mr. Kalifa is the leader of a cell of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, the GSPC in Italy, and furthermore that he was or is involved in a planned attack against U.S. institutions." The adjudicator concluded, "Given that Mr. Kalifa is still claiming refugee status at this point, I am making a conditional deportation order against Mr. Kalifa under section 32.1(5)."
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- Abdullah Ahmed Khadr (Canada):
- U.S. Complaint A complaint filed in a Massachusetts court charged Khadr with possession of a destructive device in furtherence of a crime of violence while in Afghanistan and Pakistan in October 2004.
- U.S. Indictment Khadr, whose father "was a trusted associate" of Usama Bin Laden, was charged with conspiring to kill a U.S. national outside the U.S. According to the indictment, Khadr "purchased AK-47 ammunition, PK ammunition (for use in Russian PK machine guns), rocket propelled grenades, rockets, and 82 mm and 120 mm mortar rounds. Khadr distributed such munitions...for use by Al Qaeda and other fighters in killing United States and Coalition Forces military personnel and other United States nationals in Afghanistan..."
- Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Gregory Hughes According to Hughes, who interviewed Khadr, Khadr was born in Canada in 1981 but moved with his family to Pakistan. He admitted attending the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan. In 2003, his father had been vested "with operational responsibility for organizing attacks against United States and Coalition Forces in the border area of Afghanistan near Shagai, Pakistan." While he told Hughes that "Canada should not be attack unless that country did something against Muslims to warrant it, Khadr said that the United States was a different matter..."
- U.S. Superseding Indictment A superseding indictment charged Khadr with providing material support to terrorists.
- Ontario Supreme Court of Justice: Reasons for Judgment In January 2006, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice explained why it denied Khadr bail pending extradition proceedings. This filing states, "Mr. Khadr failed to satisfy me that he would likely appear for his extradition hearing if I released him on bail. On the contrary, I believe there is a substantial risk he would flee this jurisdiction if released."
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