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A former Ottawa hospital technician has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a plot to commit terrorist attacks, marking perhaps the final chapter in a massive police investigation.
Misbahuddin Ahmed, a former diagnostic-imaging technician who was born and raised in Montreal, was convicted by a jury of two terrorism-related offences — conspiracy to commit a terrorist offence and participating in the activities of a terrorist group. He was acquitted of the most serious of the charges against him, explosive device possession.
On Thursday, he learned his sentence in an Ottawa courtroom.
Justice Colin McKinnon told Ahmed he should be grateful to RCMP and CSIS for preventing him from slipping deeper into terrorism. The sentence is 11 years after credit for time served.
Ahmed was one of three men originally arrested in Project Samossa — a year-long, multi-agency police action said to be the largest terrorism investigation in Canada since 9/11.
Co-accused Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh was sentenced last month to 24 years in prison, while former London, Ont., pathologist Khurram Sher was found not guilty in August.
The “explosive device” charge on which Ahmed was acquitted arose from a bag of bomb marking components found at his home shortly after his arrest.
During a covert search of his alleged co-conspirator’s west end apartment in the winter of 2010, the RCMP found the President’s Choice shopping bag containing more than 50 circuit boards, detailed, foreign-produced instructional videos in bomb making and detailed analysis of different types of guns and grenades and their killing capacity.
Six months later, police found the same bag in Ahmed’s basement.
During his sentencing hearing this month, Misbahuddin Ahmed apologized for his crimes, saying he “cherished” being Canadian and the freedoms that Canadians enjoy.
The 31-year-old father of three young daughters said he had abandoned his extremist views and told his sentencing hearing: “It is not who I am. I will never do anything like this again.”
Crown prosecutors had called for a 20-year prison sentence for Ahmed, rejecting defence claims that the former Ottawa Hospital worker was less of a terrorist and more of a naive dupe.
Ahmed’s lawyer, Mark Ertel, had earlier asked for a total eight-to 10-year sentence, minus the normal credit for times served both in jail and while under house arrest.
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Misbahuddin Ahmed, a former diagnostic-imaging technician who was born and raised in Montreal, was convicted by a jury of two terrorism-related offences — conspiracy to commit a terrorist offence and participating in the activities of a terrorist group. He was acquitted of the most serious of the charges against him, explosive device possession.
On Thursday, he learned his sentence in an Ottawa courtroom.
Justice Colin McKinnon told Ahmed he should be grateful to RCMP and CSIS for preventing him from slipping deeper into terrorism. The sentence is 11 years after credit for time served.
Ahmed was one of three men originally arrested in Project Samossa — a year-long, multi-agency police action said to be the largest terrorism investigation in Canada since 9/11.
Co-accused Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh was sentenced last month to 24 years in prison, while former London, Ont., pathologist Khurram Sher was found not guilty in August.
The “explosive device” charge on which Ahmed was acquitted arose from a bag of bomb marking components found at his home shortly after his arrest.
During a covert search of his alleged co-conspirator’s west end apartment in the winter of 2010, the RCMP found the President’s Choice shopping bag containing more than 50 circuit boards, detailed, foreign-produced instructional videos in bomb making and detailed analysis of different types of guns and grenades and their killing capacity.
Six months later, police found the same bag in Ahmed’s basement.
During his sentencing hearing this month, Misbahuddin Ahmed apologized for his crimes, saying he “cherished” being Canadian and the freedoms that Canadians enjoy.
The 31-year-old father of three young daughters said he had abandoned his extremist views and told his sentencing hearing: “It is not who I am. I will never do anything like this again.”
Crown prosecutors had called for a 20-year prison sentence for Ahmed, rejecting defence claims that the former Ottawa Hospital worker was less of a terrorist and more of a naive dupe.
Ahmed’s lawyer, Mark Ertel, had earlier asked for a total eight-to 10-year sentence, minus the normal credit for times served both in jail and while under house arrest.
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