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Accused terror-cell leader was determined to kill, paid informant tells CBC COLIN FREEZE The RCMP's star witness in a coming terrorism trial appeared on national television last night saying the ringleader of an alleged terrorism plot possessed "total indifference to innocent life." Mubin Shaikh made many new allegations on CBC's fifth estate. He even went so far as to don military fatigues as he revisited what is alleged to have been a terrorist training camp -- in front of the cameras, while re-enacting his real-life role as a paid agent working undercover as an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist instructor. Eighteen suspects were arrested around Toronto last summer and charged with conspiracy. Their trials could be months, even years away. Yet last night, Mr. Shaikh, a long-bearded fundamentalist Muslim and former army cadet, described details of the paid undercover work he said he did for police last year. Mr. Shaikh gave an account of how he helped an alleged group of extremists quickly move from talk to action, before they were rounded up on conspiracy charges by police He told the CBC that although he was paid, his motives were that they were dangerous extremists. "God says in the Koran that if you save one life justly, it is as if you saved all of humankind," he said. Mr. Shaikh's most damning words are reserved for the alleged leader, 22-year-old Fahim Ahmad. "This guy is an effing time bomb waiting to go off," Mr. Shaikh said. He recalled how he got to know Mr. Ahmad as they discussed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "Fahim says . . . 'Yeah, if CSIS came to my door, they know what I'd do.' . . . he makes a shooting indication, that he's going to shoot," Mr. Shaikh said. Such remarks, he said, provided a real opportunity to ingratiate himself. "I take out my wallet and show him I have a [firearms] possession and acquisition licence. . . . His eyes just light up," he said. Before long, Mr. Ahmad was confiding all sorts of grand plans, according to Mr. Shaikh. " 'We want to do this. We need guys. We need to do training. We want to hit Parliament. We want to do this and that and that.' I was just thinking to myself, 'Oh my God. Like, total indifference to innocent life.' " He continued with Mr. Ahmad's alleged visions. ". . . Storming Parliament. Kidnapping. Holding hostage the MPs, beheading them one by one unless Canadian troops are pulled out of Afghanistan . . . hit the CBC building, take control of their cameras, broadcast his message and his demands . . . hit CSIS and RCMP building in Ottawa, orchestrate a series of car bombings." Yet these were merely dreams to be worked toward, Mr. Shaikh said. "What he needed was a trainer, and I just so happened to be the guy," he told the CBC. A camera crew followed him to the snowy woods north of Toronto, where he said he helped train recruits. Police allege that after the training camp, the groups narrowed their plans down to detonating a series of truck bombs against Toronto targets. Mr. Shaikh says the man alleged to be the group's No. 2 learned how to build a bomb without any instruction from a tutor. Mr. Shaikh said many of the conversations he describes are on tape. He said he often drove the suspects around in his van, which he said CSIS "wired to the teeth." But he said he could not discuss that end of the investigation. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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