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Jahanzeb Malik and Islamic State

terrorist attacks: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel TORONTO - A Pakistani man accused of plotting terror attacks on Toronto financial district and the U.S. consulate espoused extremist views and repeatedly expressed sympathy for al-Qaida and the Islamic State, an undercover RCMP officer testified Tuesday, according to Brandon Sun. In fact, the officer said, Jahanzeb Malik told him his own family had rejected him because of his beliefs. "He said it several times: that believers are ready to die for Islam," the officer said. "He said his family had disowned him, that his brother called him a terrorist." The agent, who cannot be identified under an extensive publication ban, described posing as a Bosnian war veteran. Canada accuses Malik of plotting terrorist attacks in Toronto financial district and wants to deport him. He said he contacted Malik in September 2014 about renovating the flooring of his house. In conversations, he told the officer he had received training in weapons and explosives during two years he spent in Libya before returning to Canada in 2013, the officer testified. "He said he went to Libya to kill or be killed," the officer said. Malik, a flooring contractor, quickly came to trust the officer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.