by Jamie Long, QMI Agency Source: The Toronto Sun URL: [link] Date: January 21, 2011 OTTAWA - Accused terrorist Mohamed Harkat will be handed his deportation papers Friday by Canada Border Services after fighting more than eight years to stay in Canada. The automatic deportation order is a result of federal court judge Simon Noel's decision that Harkat, 42, was operating a safehouse for Islamic extremists in Pakistan and having associations with a known jihadist and a top al-Qaida operative. His lawyers have launched an appeal, however, and continue to build their case. They argue the court based its decision on information from secret advocates [sic], which isn't available to the public, amongst other concerns. Some of the secret information was released by the court Jan. 14, but most of the important information was blacked out, according to Harkat's lawyer Matthew Webber. Harkat, a former Ottawa gas attendant and pizza delivery man, first entered Canada with an illegal Saudi passport. But the Algerian refugee has professed it was the only way he could enter the country safely. Harkat and his lawyers have reiterated a deportation to his native Algeria could mean torture, or perhaps death. Harkat's security certificate is the first to be upheld since the government revised the law two years ago after certificates against Adil Charkaoui and Hassan Almrei were quashed. Copyright © 2011 Toronto Sun All Rights Reserved.