By Katie Daubs
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Date: February 23, 2008


Newly released documents on what led Canada's spy agency to conclude Mohamed Harkat is an al-Qaeda terrorist are filled with mistakes and largely based on interviews conducted when Mr. Harkat didn't understand English, his wife, Sophie, said Saturday.

"Our lives are on the line here and they're mixing information up," Mrs. Harkat said. On Friday, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service released summaries of the information used to support new security certificates filed in Federal Court on Mr. Harkat and four other foreign-born Muslims whom CSIS suspects are members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

They disclosed previously classified details of their alleged terrorist activities in Canada. In the filings, CSIS accuses the 36-year-old Algerian-born Ottawa man of helping Islamist extremists enter Canada, and also receiving money from Islamist extremists abroad.

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