Mahmoud Abu Shandi

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Mahmoud Abu Shandi of Palestine arrived in Montreal in 1991, via Algeria and Norway. He came with his wife who was in pregnant at the time. Shandi was classified as a security risk based on his past involvement with Fatah and the related organization M17, according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service case. He argued that he had had to flee to Canada based on his criticism of Arafat's support for Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. Ian Watson, leader of the National Council on Canada-Arab relations at the time argued that the information for the CSIS case against Shandi had been provided by Mossad, and was substantially inaccurate. Justice Bud Cullen presided over the matter and rejected the defense's arguments. Shandi was deported to Algeria, and later Libya.^[1]