Secret files against terror suspects revealed

posted on February 23, 2008 | in Category Security Certificates | PermaLink

by Colin Freeze, Tu Thanh Ha and Omar el Akkad
Source: The Globe and Mail
URL: [link] Date: February 23, 2008


OTTAWA and MONTREAL -- The case against a group of Canadians sometimes referred to as "the Secret Trial Five" isn't as secret as it used to be.

Ottawa unveiled more specific allegations against the five terrorism suspects yesterday: for example, that one suspect called the satellite phone of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, and that another was in charge of a group of training camp recruits in Afghanistan.

In hundreds of pages of court documents yesterday, Canadian ministers signed new security certificates against alleged members of the al-Qaeda network. In doing so, the government narrowly beat a date imposed by the Supreme Court for the previous certificates to expire.

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