Mohammed Dirie

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Mohammed Ali 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 mother 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]

As a result of preferred direct indictment by the Crown Attorney on 2007-09-24, Dirie was re-arrested and now only faces 2 charges after the Crown dropped the third charge of providing property to aid and abet a terrorist organization.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Teotonio, Isabel. "Homegrown terror case goes to trial", The Toronto Star, 2007-09-24. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.

v • d • e 2006 Toronto terrorism case

Accused	Steven Chand · Shareef Abdelhaleem · · Jahmaal James · Mohammed Dirie · Fahim Ahmad · Asad Ansari · Zakaria Amara · Amin Durrani · Saad Khalid · Saad Gaya · one young offender with unreleased name

Suspected colleagues	Syed Ahmed · Ehsanul Sadequee

Wrongly accused	Ibrahim Aboud, Qayyum Jamal, Ahmad Ghany, Yasim Mohamed, three young offenders with unreleased names

Defense attorneys	Paul Burstein · Breese Davies · Dennis Edney · Anser Farooq · Rocco Galati · David Kolinsky · Donald McLeod · David Mercury · Faisal Mirza · Michael A. Moon · Edward Sapiano · Paul Slansky · Peter Zaduk

CSIS informant	Mubin Shaikh

‡ denotes suspects released on bail.