Mohammed Dirie

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Mohammed Dirie is one of 17 people connected to arrests on June 2 and June 3, 2006 in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests.

At the time of the arrests, he was already serving a two year sentence on weapons smuggling charges. He was caught bringing guns across the U.S. border to Canada. Border patrol agents found two loaded guns strapped to his legs. He was born in Somalia and immigrated with his parents to Canada. He was sentenced with Yasim Abdi Mohamed for gun smuggling.

In 2003, he was the subject of a Toronto Star article about a carpentry business that hired local youths.[1]

2006 Toronto terrorism case

Accused - Steven Chand, Shareef Abdelhaleem, Qayyum Jamal, Yasim Mohamed, Jahmaal James, Mohammed Dirie, Fahim Ahmad, Asad Ansari, Ahmad Ghany‡, Zakaria Amara, Amin Durrani, Saad Khalid and five young offenders whose names have not been released‡‡‡. Suspected colleagues - Syed Ahmed, Ehsanul Sadequee Later arrests - Ibrahim Aboud‡ Defence Attorneys - Anser Farooq, Rocco Galati, David Kolinsky, Arif Raza, Gary Batasar, Saisal Mirza CSIS Informant - Mubin Shaikh ‡ denotes a suspect was released on bail