[PHOTO: CSIS alleges that Mohamed Harkat operated a guest house in Pakistan for Ibn Khattab, shown above. There is conflicting evidence whether Khattab was part of the bin Laden network.]
In the Federal Court of Canada, one judge's terrorist is another's jihadist warrior.
In two security certificate cases, two federal judges have drawn vastly different conclusions about Ibn Khattab, a Saudi known as "the lion of Chechnya."
The judge who upheld the certificate against Ottawa's Mohamed Harkat earlier this month deemed Khattab an al-Qaeda linked terrorist. Last year, however, another judge dismissed the case against Toronto's Hassan Almrei, ruling that Khattab "could not reasonably be said to be part of al-Qaeda."
Their conflicting views highlight the complexity of certificate cases, in which judges must often decide hard questions of history.
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Judges differ in their view of jihadist
posted on January 09, 2011 | in Category War on Terror | PermaLink
by Andrew Duffy
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Date: January 8, 2011
One declared Ibn Khattab a terrorist, the other didn't and, writes Andrew Duffy, that divergence could lead to the deportation of Ottawa's Mohamed Harkat
