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  • Jan 20th, 2010
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The leader of a radical Islamist terror cell was sentenced to life in prison late Monday for planning terror attacks near Toronto. Zakaria Amana, 24, admitted to planning to bomb the city's stock exchange, the offices of Canada's intelligence agency and a military base.

Amara had set up a terrorist training camp near the petrol station where he worked, news reports said. He planned to fill three small trucks with explosives and blow them up simultaneously at the three targets in mid-November 2006. Police, who had been watching Amara for years, stopped his plans in a sting operation. Amara, a university dropout, will be eligible for parole in about six years.One of his 17 accomplices, 21-year-old Saad Gaya, was sentenced to 12 years, the National Post newspaper wrote in its online edition.

Copyright Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2010


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