Testimony continues today at Via Rail terror plot trial in Toronto
Posted Feb 3, 2015 02:05:58 PM.
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TORONTO – An undercover FBI officer who gained the trust of two men accused of planning a terrorist attack on a train traveling between Canada and the U.S. is telling their trial how he first came to learn of their plot.
While traveling from Montreal to Toronto with one man to meet the other, he says he was told the pair had a plan “to derail a commuter train from New York to Toronto.”
Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier both face multiple charges in the alleged Via Rail plot.
The undercover officer – whose recorded conversations with the pair form crucial evidence in the case – says Esseghaier told him his “training overseas with the mujahedeen” had motivated the plot.
He also says Esseghaier told him of another idea he had to recruit a Muslim chef to poison troops on an army base.
The officer says all the plans were an effort to “send a message to the Western world to remove themselves from the occupation overseas of Muslim lands.”
