Mubin Shaikh
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Born on September 29 1975, Mubin Shaikh was one of two informants for CSIS in the 2006 Toronto Terrorism case, and moved on to become a paid RCMP agent source. He was allegedly recruited by the group to lead the "training camps" which the others attended, and helped the group "quickly move from talk to action, before they were rounded up on conspiracy charges by police".[1]
Shaikh was born at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, to Indian parents who had emigrated from the United Kingdom where his father had been studying.
Shaikh attended Grade 7 and 8 at Kane Senior Public School, and joined the Royal Canadian Army Cadets at the age of 13.[2] He then attended York Memorial Collegiate, where he met his future wife, Joanne Sijka. They married in December 1998 after her conversion to Islam, honeymooned in Mecca and Medina, and currently have three children, and are expecting their fourth in late October 2006.[3]
He has travelled extensively throughout the world, including most recently to Yemen in July 2005 and lived in Syria from 2002 through 2004. Upon his return to Canada, he heard of Mohammed Khawaja's arrest. Khawaja and Shaikh knew each other from childhood and so he volunteered to work with CSIS as an informant, while continuing to volunteer at Masjid El Noor where he has worked for at least ten years.
He is a noted activist and public speaker, speaking on a 2004 panel for the Millennium Scholarship Foundation at Parliament Hill in Ottawa and the International Law Student Conference of November 2004. He has appeared as a panel speaker at the University of Toronto and McGill University. The following year, with the support of Sijka, he actively campaigned for the Sharia courts in Ontario[4], and he continues to argue that Taliban attacks against Canadian troops in Afghanistan are legitimate compared to the bombing of non-combatants.[5]
As of January 2007, he claimed that he was owed $300,000 from the RCMP for his role, which was paid prior to the start of preliminary hearings for the Young Offenders.[6]. The second informant, a prominent Egyptian-Canadian Muslim who used to work for Air Canada, is an agricultural engineer who helped arrange the phony purchase of ammonium nitrate. [7][8]
A Sunni Muslim, Shaikh is also a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070118.TERROR18/TPStory/National
- ^ http://yorksouth-weston.raon.ca/liberal/federal/multicultural.html
- ^ http://sonyafatah.com/blog/2006/08/23/from-goth-chick-to-devout-wife/
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/09/sharia-protests-20050909.html
- ^ http://sonyafatah.com/blog/2006/08/23/informant-says-attacks-on-canadians-are-legitimate-in-afghanistan/
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070116.wxinformant16/BNStory/National/home
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/13/second-person.html
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070116.wxinformant16/BNStory/National/home
- ^ http://yorksouth-weston.raon.ca/liberal/federal/multicultural.html
- Interview with Mubin Shaikh, CBC, July 15, 2006
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 · five young offenders whose names have not been released‡‡‡°.
Suspected colleagues: Syed Ahmed · Ehsanul Sadequee
Later arrests: Ibrahim Aboud‡
Defence Attorneys: Michael Block · Anser Farooq · Rocco Galati · David Kolinsky · Donald McLeod · Arif Raza · Michael A. Moon · Gary Batasar · Faisal Mirza
CSIS Informant: Mubin Shaikh
‡ denotes a suspect was released on bail · ° denotes a suspect had all relevant charges dropped
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