Ahmed Abassi: A month before Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were slapped with charges stemming from whats being called Canadas first known Al-Qaeda-backed plot, Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian who previously lived in Canada, entered the U.S. for evil purposes, according to U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, according to The Star. The FBI had been trailing Abassi since his arrival in the U.S. in March. Their terrorist task force included an undercover agent who, according to documents, recorded hours of conversations with Abassi in which he spilled plans for terrorist acts in U.S. and abroad and The same day two men were arrested for allegedly planning a deadly terrorist attack on Canadian soil a third was taken into custody at New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport in connection to the plot, newly unsealed U.S. Department of Justice documents reveal. Abassi was there for the purpose of committing terrorism, and developing a network of others who would do the same, she said in a statement.
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