Toronto terror suspects recorded video with weapons, ISIS flag

A begetter and boy accused of planning a violent attack successful Toronto had filmed a video of themselves holding weapons successful beforehand of nan ISIS flag, sources told Global News.

The video of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 26, showed them pinch an axe and machete, according to 3 sources.

Two of nan six coercion charges revenge against nan brace impeach them of possessing those aforesaid items for nan use of ISIS.

The video whitethorn explicate why constabulary person claimed nan planned onslaught was successful nan “advanced stages.”

In addition, nan elder Eldidi allegedly appeared successful a June 2015 ISIS video successful which he was shown dismembering a captive pinch a sword, 2 sources acquainted pinch nan matter said.

The RCMP arrested nan brace astatine a edifice successful Richmond Hill, Ont., connected Sunday nighttime arsenic they were allegedly adjacent to conducting an onslaught successful Toronto. They person been charged pinch six ISIS-related coercion offences.

One of nan counts is for an aggravated battle nan begetter allegedly committed for ISIS extracurricular Canada successful 2015. The complaint does not specify where, and nan RCMP declined to elaborate.

But a video that appears to lucifer nan 1 that resulted successful nan aggravated battle complaint shows a captive wearing an orangish jumpsuit suspended from a rod successful a desert.

A man wearing a achromatic clothes past hacks astatine nan prisoner’s limbs pinch a sword. His look is visible successful nan video. It is unclear whether nan unfortunate was already dormant erstwhile he was dismembered.

The video was published successful June 2015 by nan pro-ISIS media outfit Al-Raud Media.

At a news convention connected Wednesday, constabulary provided fewer specifications connected nan case, saying nan investigation was continuing and a publication prohibition was successful effect.

They said location was nary further threat to nationalist safety.

The Eldidis are among much than 3 twelve suspected ISIS supporters who person been charged successful Canada pinch offences related to nan violent group.

A Global News study of police, prosecution and tribunal records recovered that Canadian authorities person charged 38 group pinch ISIS-related crimes since 2014.

Twenty-seven of those were men, including nan Eldidis. Another six were women, while 5 were minors. Nine of nan arrests person travel since nan commencement of 2023.

The charges scope from passport fraud to coercion and murder. But each had 1 communal denominator: they were carried retired for ISIS.

Of those accused, 20 person been convicted to date, while 14 are still awaiting trials. Four were recovered not blameworthy aliases had charges stayed.

In summation to prosecutions successful this country, respective Canadians were put connected proceedings successful nan United States and United Kingdom.

On July 30, Khaled Hussein of Edmonton was sentenced to 5 years successful a British prison for his domiciled successful a panic group linked to ISIS attacks.

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, who robbed an Edmonton jewelry shop to money ISIS, was extradited to nan U.S. and sentenced to 20 years.

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A elder Canadian ISIS member, Mohamed Khalifa, was sentenced to life successful nan U.S. for producing ISIS videos showing him executing victims.

Officials did not trust only connected prosecutions to woody pinch ISIS supporters. In immoderate cases, they denied passports to suspected extremists.

Another communal maneuver was to inquire nan courts for coercion bid bonds, which imposed restrictions connected suspects successful nan sanction of nationalist safety.

Several ISIS supporters were ne'er prosecuted because they were killed, either during aerial strikes successful Syria and Iraq aliases successful Canada itself.

But 1 of nan astir shocking crimes whitethorn beryllium nan shooting of 4 family members astatine their Mississauga, Ont., takeout restaurant, Chicken Land.

According to prosecutors, nan shooting was ordered by Niqash Abbasi, who ran an ISIS fundraising cognition retired of a storage adjacent Toronto’s Pearson airport.

When he recovered retired that 1 of his employees, Naim Akl, was readying to spell to nan authorities, Abbasi came up pinch a scheme to extremity him.

He would termination not only Akl, but besides his full family.

At 7:17 p.m. connected May 29, 2021, a greenish Honda Accord pulled up and Anand Nath sewage retired wearing a hoodie. He went wrong and started shooting.

He changeable Naim Akl successful nan look and receptor pinch a 9-mm handgun. When Akl fell to nan floor, Nath changeable him a 3rd time.

He fired 4 much times, wounding Akl’s mother, begetter and relative earlier jumping into nan trunk of nan waiting Accord, driven by Suliman Raza.

The execution took 18 seconds.

The Chicken Land execution was solved erstwhile a friend of nan gunman went to homicide detectives, resulting successful nan apprehension of Nath, Raza and Abbasi.

On their physics devices, constabulary recovered ISIS propaganda and messages astir their support for nan group and Akl’s “treachery.”

All 3 were convicted successful June 2024.

Stewart.Bell@globalnews.ca