Yasim Abdi Mohamed

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Yasim Abdi Mohamed is one of 17 people connected to arrests on June 2 and June 3, 2006 in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He was serving a two year sentence on weapons smuggling charges, which were recently connected to the Toronto group. He was caught bringing a gun across the U.S. border to Canada. He was born in Somalia and immigrated with his parents to Canada. He was sentenced with Mohammed Dirie for the gun smuggling crime.

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