Sept 11 2001: Canadian Justice

Subway System Dept: Police hope the case against Mr. Imam – who faces a life sentence if he is caught and convicted of being a terrorist trainer – will alert the public about what they say is the growing threat posed by radicals from the West who want to join al-Qaeda and its affiliates, according to Globe And Mail. At a press conference in Winnipeg, they will allege that Mr. Imam, while in Pakistan, had a role in training Najibullah Zazi – the Afghanistan-born New Yorker who has already pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb the subway system and the case, which alleges lesser offences by a second suspect, amounts to a crucial test of the reach of Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act. Passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it allows police to charge suspects who are suspected of committing terrorist offences outside Canada’s borders. The new case is the first time that the Mounties have charged someone with acts taking place entirely overseas. The charges are new, but the investigation is not. Several counterterrorism agencies have been quietly hunting Mr. Imam over the years. But by obtaining warrants from a Winnipeg court on Monday, the Mounties have made the manhunt official – and laid a claim to the suspects by alleging they are fugitives from Canadian justice. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, anti terrorism act