Alleged ‘Toronto 17' terrorist granted bail

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Alleged ‘Toronto 17' terrorist granted bail

Source: Globe & Mail

The oldest alleged member of the so-called “Toronto 17” group has been granted bail.

Qayyum Jamal, a 44-year-old labourer from Mississauga, was arrested in June, 2006, as police accused young Muslims in their teens and early 20s of hatching a terrorist bomb plot against targets in Toronto.

“I was able to establish the case against Mr. Jamal was not as the Crown would have it,” said defence lawyer Anser Farooq in a phone interview Monday. Without going into the details of what was said during a six-day bail hearing, he pointed out that the Crown recently dropped bomb plot allegations against his client.

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