Anser Farooq and John Oliveira

government: However, Malik lawyer Anser Farooq called it suspicious that the officer secret recording equipment apparently failed during a key interaction, according to The Waterloo Record. Farooq also noted the government provided no audio and called some of the officer testimony "fanciful." The government, which wants to deport him, maintains Malik, 33, is an Islamic extremist who tried to recruit the officer for a plot to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial district buildings. "This was not a passing suggestion," said John Oliveira, Lourenco co-counsel. "This is a person who has clearly given it a lot of thought." In testimony at the Immigration and Refugee Board hearing earlier Wednesday, the officer said he initially knew nothing about Malik but was tasked in September with hiring him to do flooring in a "prop house" and then getting him to live there. In closing submissions, government representative Jessica Lourenco called Jahanzeb Malik a terrorist sympathizer bent on committing terrorism in Canada whose testimony was "evasive and frankly ridiculous." By contrast, she said, the undercover RCMP officer on whom the case against him rests, was honest and consistent under questioning. The agent testified how Malik repeatedly expressed support for al-Qaida, and played videos showing Islamic State atrocities, such as mass executions and beheadings. Nathan Cirillo at the national war memorial in Ottawa. "How come that the public feels sorry for one fallen soldier but they don't care about the women and children that their soldiers killed in Afghanistan," the witness said Malik asked. "He said, 'You shouldn't be surprised that something like this is happening.' " On Oct. 28, 2014, Malik asked the officer, who pretended to be a veteran of the 1990s civil war in Bosnia, by writing on a piece of paper if he knew how to make explosives. Malik told him the killings were justified given western attacks on Muslims in the Middle East and Canada was complicit in those attacks, the officer testified. "Any terrorist action would be justified in Canada," the agent said Malik told him. "He said there are no civilians in Canada, only enemies, because all Canadians pay tax, and the tax dollars are used to buy the planes that are sent to Syria and Iraq, and are used to fund the military." In one conversation, the officer said Malik was puzzled at the outpouring of shock and grief that followed last year murder of Cpl. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.