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He was allegedly recruited by the group to lead the "training camps" which the others attended, and helped the group "quickly move from talk to action, before they were rounded up on conspiracy charges by police".globeandmail.com: National Critics allege that he "urged them to act, then sat back and counted his cash while the others went to jail".MacLean\'s magazine, The Mounties\' man in the Toronto terror bust admits a cocaine habit, Sept. 10, 2007.
Shaikh was born at St. Michael\'s Hospital in Toronto, to Indian parents who had emigrated from the United Kingdom where his father, Mohammed Shahied Shaikh, had been studying.
Shaikh attended Grade 7 and 8 at Kane Senior Public School, and joined the Royal Canadian Army Cadets at the age of 13.Riding Associations Ontario - Get Involved...It\'s Your Country Too! He then attended York Memorial Collegiate, where he turned to marijuana and LSD, and mushrooms. When he was 19, he travelled to Pakistan, India and Britain. He met his future wife, Joanne Sijka, at York Collegiate and they married in December 1998 after her conversion to Islam. They honeymooned in Mecca and Medina, and currently have four children.SONYA FATAH » Archives » From ‘goth chick’ to devout wife
A Sunni Muslim, Shaikh is also a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.Riding Associations Ontario - Get Involved...It\'s Your Country Too! He has five tattoos and a number of self-inflicted cigarette burnsPBS: Frontline
Having taken a course in Alternate Dispute Resolution at the University of Windsor, Shaikh volunteers at the arbitration centre of Masjid el-Noor. In 2005, with the support of his wife, he actively campaigned for Sharia courts in Ontario which would allow interested parties to opt to have their hearings processed under Islamic law.CBC, Ontario Premier rejects use of Shariah law.
He continues to argue that Taliban attacks against Canadian troops in Afghanistan are legitimate compared to the bombing of non-combatants.SONYA FATAH » Archives » Informant says attacks on Canadians are legitimate in Afghanistan
He is also a noted activist and public speaker, speaking on a 2004 panel for the Millennium Scholarship Foundation at Parliament Hill in Ottawa and the International Law Student Conference of November 2004. He has appeared as a panel speaker at the University of TorontoUniversity of Toronto: Events and McGill University.
He has travelled extensively throughout the world, and lived in Syria from 2002 through 2004.
Upon his return to Canada, he heard of Mohammad Khawaja\'s arrest. Khawaja and Shaikh knew each other from childhood and so he volunteered to work with CSIS as an informant, while continuing to volunteer at Masjid el-Noor where he had worked for at least ten years.
Shaikh appeared as a witness at an acquaintance\'s second degree murder trial, where his testimony was disputed. He was also charged, in an unrelated incident, with the assault of his aunt - though the charges were dropped.globeandmail.com
Following the 2006 arrests, Shaikh developed a cocaine habit, spending "a couple thousand dollars" on the drug - later telling Macleans magazine that he had phoned an ambulance to attend to him after an overdose a couple of times. Once informed of his addiction, the RCMP paid for his rehabilitation visits. The news of his drug habit led attorney Dennis Edney to state that "...it\'s essential that the Canadian public is made aware of the extent to which these young men were manipulated and directed by CSIS agents, particularly when one of those agents is an admitted drug addict with a powerful personality."
As of January 2007, he claimed that he was owed $300,000 from the RCMP for his role, which was then paid at the start of preliminary hearings for the Young Offenders.globeandmail.com: National. The second informant, a prominent Egyptian-Canadian Muslim who used to work for Air Canada, is an agricultural engineer who helped arrange the phony purchase of ammonium nitrate and negotiated payment of $4 million dollars for his work with the RCMP.globeandmail.com 2nd mole played key role in bomb plot probeglobeandmail.com: National
On April 3, 2007 Shaikh was charged with two counts of assault and one count of uttering threats against two 12 year-old girls,globeandmail.com: NationalRCMP informant charged with assault - The Mississauga News - Mississauga.com. According to witnesses, the two Kane Middle School students had either ignored a request to not touch a toddler they had seenGlobe and Mail, " Informant in terror plot faces assault charges", May 31, 2007 , or had been taunting Shaikh referring to him as "Taliban-boy" and "Osama bin Laden"; one of the girls was either then pushed, or tripped and fell, to the ground. Subsequently, Shaikh was alleged to have "ripped off his top", throwing it to the ground and challenging male students to an altercation - a charge that Shaikh has said is "fabricated and exaggerated". Police say he then drove away "erratically".Teotonio, Isabel and Thulasi Srikanthan. Toronto Star, Witness denies assault claim, Jun 23, 2007
| 2006 Toronto terrorism case | |
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| Accused | Steven Chand · Shareef Abdelhaleem · Qayyum Jamal‡ · Yasim Mohamed · Jahmaal James · Mohammed Dirie · Fahim Ahmad · Asad Ansari · Ahmad Ghany‡ · Zakaria Amara · Amin Durrani · Saad Khalid · five young offenders with unreleased names‡°°° |
| Suspected colleagues | Syed Ahmed · Ehsanul Sadequee |
| Arrested later | Ibrahim Aboud‡ |
| Defense attorneys | Paul Burstein · Breese Davies · Dennis Edney · Anser Farooq · Rocco Galati · David Kolinsky · Donald McLeod · David Mercury · Faisal Mirza · Michael A. Moon · Edward Sapiano · Paul Slansky · Peter Zaduk |
| CSIS informant | Mubin Shaikh |
| ‡ denotes suspects released on bail. ° denotes suspects with all relevant charges dropped. | |
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