Fahim Ahmad
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Fahim Ahmad is one of 18 people arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He was 21 years old at the time of arrest, and married with two children.[1]
He was attending Meadowvale Secondary School with fellow suspects Saad Khalid and Zakaria Amara. Friends suggest that he made statements supporting the September 11, 2001 attacks.[2]
He reportedly handed out DVDs extolling the virtues of Jihadist martyrs at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto, which has been the subject of police surveillance in the past.[3]
Ahmad is charged with receiving and providing terrorist training, and intent to harm or kill with explosives. He is being represented by attorney Dennis Edney.
[edit] Internet useage
Ahmad had been under surveillance since 2002, when the 17-year old's internet useage demonstrated that he was in contact with "jihadists in Alberta."[4][5]
In 2004, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) noticed that he joined had Clearguidance.com a year earlier[6], an "anti-Western" website on which he logged 754 posts[7].
Among his posts were statements like:
"Parents' anti-jihad/anti-'religiousness' talks are starting to effect [...] come on bros, i need some jihad talks, anything! its like so dead my sources for videos is no more either, [...] i know u guys can hook me up."
"Now a days, for the most part, parents dont practice their [religion] much to begin with, and when a kid says, 'o mommy, daddy, i want to fight for ALLAH' automatically they say "NO! U WILL GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE A FUTURE."
When moderator Salmaan Ziauddin resigned from the website, CSIS approached him several times, asking about specific members of the website, including Ahmad and Zakaria Amara.[8]
Ahmad's wife, Mariya, was a student at the University of Toronto and went by the online moniker "Zawjatu Faheem"[9]
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