Drug Addiction and Passenger Train

: THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Mantha TORONTO - A psychologist has described a man convicted of terrorism in a plot to derail a passenger train as a desperate drug addict who conned people to get high but wouldn't even kill a spider, according to Brandon Sun. Dr. A doctor who conducted a psychiatric assessment on a man found guilty of terrorism charges in a plot to derail a passenger train says Raed Jaser was motivated by a severe drug addiction. Jess Ghannam told a Toronto court on Monday that Raed Jaser did not have consistent radical Islamic ideology, but adopted a persona as a pious Muslim to trick members of that community. He told the sentencing hearing that Jaser had a "debilitating" addiction and "would do anything to stay high." Jaser and his co-accused, Chiheb Esseghaier, were found guilty in March of a terror-related conspiracy to commit murder, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison. Ghannam concluded that Jaser had no intention to hurt anyone and he was motivated by his drug addiction and by wanting to take care of his family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.