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Canadian al-Qaeda suspect handed over to U.S. by CSIS Globe And Mail July 29, 2002 By CHRISTINE BOYD AND ALLAN WOODS ST. CATHARINES, ONT. -- Canada's spy service helped United States authorities bring suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Mansour Jabarah back to Canada last month before transferring him to a secure facility in the United States. Mr. Jabarah, 20, a Kuwaiti Canadian who lived in St. Catharines, is co-operating with investigators and reportedly supplying them with the strongest information yet into al-Qaeda's worldwide operations. He was arrested last month in Oman for directing an Islamic extremist group with a plan to blow up the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Singapore. "It was with our assistance that he's in the hands of U.S. authorities," said Phil Gibson, a spokesman for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "Beyond that I can't get into details about what sort of assistance." Over the past two months, Mr. Jabarah, who has not been formally charged with any crime, was brought from Oman to Canada. He was then shuttled to an unidentified detention centre in the northeastern United States. U.S. authorities said he may testify against Zacarias Moussaoui, on trial for his part in the Sept. 11 attacks. Canadian officials will not say how long Mr. Jabarah was in Canada or where he was held. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation refused comment yesterday. Mr. Jabarah is suspected of being a leader of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamic fundamentalist organization, with cells in Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia. Originally he was known only as "Sammy" -- a name used on a videotape found in a home in Afghanistan by Northern Alliance soldiers. In a roundup of 13 members of the group in December of 2001, authorities discovered that eight had been trained in military tactics at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. CNN reported over the weekend that Mr. Jabarah was known to have met al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden. The accusations against Mr. Jabarah have come as a shock to family friends, schoolmates and members of Masjid an-Noor, the St. Catharines mosque where Mr. Jabarah's father was a high-ranking member. The family moved to Canada from Kuwait shortly after the Persian Gulf war and settled in St. Catharines, a city with more than 1,000 practising Muslims. While attending Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School, Mr. Jabarah was taunted as a "terrorist" because of his Kuwaiti origins. "This is unbelievable," schoolmate Robert Kostecki said. "People used to joke about it, to poke fun at him about bomb threats. So it's really weird we'd hear this about him." Mr. Kostecki and other schoolmates said Mr. Jabarah was a "nice guy" who wasn't involved in extracurricular activities and had a small group of friends. He appeared as often as three times a day to pray at the mosque with his father, the vice-president of the Islamic Society of St. Catharines, who also provided marriage counselling. Hussein Hamdani, who often saw the family at the mosque, remembers the young man as a quiet, helpful lad who was always willing to lend a hand, on one occasion hustling to set up 150 chairs in the prayer room. "I can't believe it; this boy would not do this game," Mr. Hamdani said. "Something is wrong. I don't believe this boy did something wrong. He was a very good boy." Zakir Ali, president of the Islamic Society, said no one in the St. Catharines Muslim community he has spoken to believes the accusations. "I was very, very surprised; just shocked." Mr. Ali said Mr. Jabarah's father made trips regularly to Kuwait, most recently in November of last year. The eldest son, Abdul, lives in the family home. He refused comment. 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