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Three Ottawa men have pleaded guilty to terrorism-related offences, including a pair of twins who plotted to leave the country to fight with the Islamic State.
Twins Ashton and Carlos Larmond and Suliman Mohamed entered the guilty pleas in an Ottawa courtroom Friday morning.
Ashton Larmond pleaded guilty to instructing a person to carry out a terrorist activity, while his brother Carlos pleaded guilty to attempting to leave Canada to commit terrorist acts. Mohamed admitted to conspiring with the Larmonds and others to carry out a terrorist activity.
“These three were intent on getting over to the Middle East to join ISIL,” federal prosecutor Douglas Curliss told the court.
Ashton Larmond was “more of an organizer, and director and had been involved in it more deeply than in the case of his twin brother and Suliman Mohamed,” said Curliss.
The charges related to plotting that went on between August of 2014 and Jan. 9, 2015.
The Larmonds both pleaded separately to several charges of uttering threats to kill correctional officers and other inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in March and April 2015.
Carlos Larmond, 24, was arrested at a Montreal airport on Jan. 9, 2015, as he awaited for an overseas flight. The RCMP alleged he was leaving the country to wage terrorism.
His brother, Ashton, was arrested in Ottawa the same day and was charged with facilitating a terrorist activity, participating in the activity of a terrorist group, and instructing another to carry out an activity for a terrorist group. It’s alleged the two conspired between last August and the day they were arrested.
Suliman Mohamed, 22, a close friend of Ashton’s, was arrested days later and charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group and conspiring to participate in a terrorist activity.
The suspects were presented as a terror “cluster” by the RCMP, and all have remained in jail awaiting trial.
Their trials were delayed earlier this year when federal prosecutors used what is known as a direct indictment to send the trial in front of a jury in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trials, initially scheduled for October, weren’t supposed to begin until May 2017.
In court, Curliss said the RCMP terrorism case involved wiretap and informant-provided body-wire evidence.
One of those informant conversations was on Oct. 22, 2014, the day Michael Zehaf-Bibeau brought home-grown terrorism to Ottawa, first at the National War Memorial and later at Parliament Hill. According to secretly recorded conversations obtained by the RCMP informant, Ashton Larmond bragged that he had “bigger plans.”
Postmedia has also learned that police were first alerted to Ashton Larmond on Sept. 1, 2013, when his mother turned him in. She called Ottawa police to report that her son allegedly had plans to go to Syria and fight for ISIL, the jihadist movement that aspires to establish an Islamic caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria.
Ottawa police say they called the Mounties immediately and his mother was interviewed hours later. In the interview, she said her son had purchased an airline ticket to Istanbul and had already packed his bags.
It would be 17 days before Passport Canada revoked Ashton Larmond’s papers. In an interview later with RCMP, Ashton Larmond said he was upset that he couldn’t travel overseas.
In a Feb. 5, 2014 interview with the Mounties, Larmond said his mother was confused and said he was in fact going to live in Saudi Arabia after backpacking in Turkey.
Larmond also told the RCMP that he’d never harm a Canadian citizen or anyone else because that would be against Islam, and that he’s only allowed to defend himself.
“I’m not an idiot like the Toronto 18 guys,” he told them.
His brother, Carlos Larmond, booked a Jan. 9, 2015 flight to India via Frankfurt departing from Montreal. He paid cash for a return flight but purchased cancellation insurance.
In the days leading to his flight, Carlos Larmond sold most of his stuff on kijiji.ca, including a dirt bike and car.
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Twins Ashton and Carlos Larmond and Suliman Mohamed entered the guilty pleas in an Ottawa courtroom Friday morning.
Ashton Larmond pleaded guilty to instructing a person to carry out a terrorist activity, while his brother Carlos pleaded guilty to attempting to leave Canada to commit terrorist acts. Mohamed admitted to conspiring with the Larmonds and others to carry out a terrorist activity.
“These three were intent on getting over to the Middle East to join ISIL,” federal prosecutor Douglas Curliss told the court.
Ashton Larmond was “more of an organizer, and director and had been involved in it more deeply than in the case of his twin brother and Suliman Mohamed,” said Curliss.
The charges related to plotting that went on between August of 2014 and Jan. 9, 2015.
The Larmonds both pleaded separately to several charges of uttering threats to kill correctional officers and other inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in March and April 2015.
Carlos Larmond, 24, was arrested at a Montreal airport on Jan. 9, 2015, as he awaited for an overseas flight. The RCMP alleged he was leaving the country to wage terrorism.
His brother, Ashton, was arrested in Ottawa the same day and was charged with facilitating a terrorist activity, participating in the activity of a terrorist group, and instructing another to carry out an activity for a terrorist group. It’s alleged the two conspired between last August and the day they were arrested.
Suliman Mohamed, 22, a close friend of Ashton’s, was arrested days later and charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group and conspiring to participate in a terrorist activity.
The suspects were presented as a terror “cluster” by the RCMP, and all have remained in jail awaiting trial.
Their trials were delayed earlier this year when federal prosecutors used what is known as a direct indictment to send the trial in front of a jury in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trials, initially scheduled for October, weren’t supposed to begin until May 2017.
In court, Curliss said the RCMP terrorism case involved wiretap and informant-provided body-wire evidence.
One of those informant conversations was on Oct. 22, 2014, the day Michael Zehaf-Bibeau brought home-grown terrorism to Ottawa, first at the National War Memorial and later at Parliament Hill. According to secretly recorded conversations obtained by the RCMP informant, Ashton Larmond bragged that he had “bigger plans.”
Postmedia has also learned that police were first alerted to Ashton Larmond on Sept. 1, 2013, when his mother turned him in. She called Ottawa police to report that her son allegedly had plans to go to Syria and fight for ISIL, the jihadist movement that aspires to establish an Islamic caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria.
Ottawa police say they called the Mounties immediately and his mother was interviewed hours later. In the interview, she said her son had purchased an airline ticket to Istanbul and had already packed his bags.
It would be 17 days before Passport Canada revoked Ashton Larmond’s papers. In an interview later with RCMP, Ashton Larmond said he was upset that he couldn’t travel overseas.
In a Feb. 5, 2014 interview with the Mounties, Larmond said his mother was confused and said he was in fact going to live in Saudi Arabia after backpacking in Turkey.
Larmond also told the RCMP that he’d never harm a Canadian citizen or anyone else because that would be against Islam, and that he’s only allowed to defend himself.
“I’m not an idiot like the Toronto 18 guys,” he told them.
His brother, Carlos Larmond, booked a Jan. 9, 2015 flight to India via Frankfurt departing from Montreal. He paid cash for a return flight but purchased cancellation insurance.
In the days leading to his flight, Carlos Larmond sold most of his stuff on kijiji.ca, including a dirt bike and car.
More to come
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