Fellow Student: Chiheb Esseghaier

Chiheb Esseghaier: Ahmed Abassi, 26, is the youngest of three men picked up by counterterrorism authorities in the alleged plot but was perhaps the most influential. He has reportedly told his U.S. interrogators that it was he who radicalized Chiheb Esseghaier, a fellow engineer who was a post-doctoral student at Quebecs National Institute of Scientific Research, according to The Star. Abassi had not been seen on campus or at his apartment for months, but one fellow student remembered his hardline views and penchant for conversations about politics and Islam and A hermit at home and a preacher at school is how the third man accused in the VIA Rail terrorism plot was described by a fellow student, who recalled him as a devout Muslim with a penchant for talking politics with classmates at Quebec Citys Laval University. Abassi was nabbed by FBI agents at New Yorks John F. Kennedy airport on April 22, the same day Raed Jasser and Chiheb Esseghaier were arrested by RCMP in an alleged plot to attack a New York-to-Toronto passenger train. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.