#mohamed hersi

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The only Canadian ever to be convicted of seeking to join an overseas terrorist group was sentenced in a Toronto area courtroom Thursday to 10 years in prison. Mohamed Hersi, 28, was arrested at Toronto airport in 2011 as he tried to board a plane to his birth country of Somalia. He was convicted in May of "attempting to participate in terrorist activity" and of counseling another person to participate in a terrorist activity, after he provided advice to an undercover policeman. Prosecutors said he planned to join the Shebab, a Somali Islamist militia listed by the Canadian government as a banned terrorist group. Source: AFP

[newsdock]

A Canadian was convicted Friday of trying to join Somalia's Shebab militants, marking the first time Ottawa has brought charges of attempting to participate in terrorist activity. Mohamed Hersi, 28, was arrested at Toronto's airport in March 2011 as he was about to leave for Cairo. Prosecutors, however, said Hersi was in fact traveling to his birth country of Somalia to join the Shebab. Hersi was also convicted of counseling another person to participate in a terrorist activity, after he provided advice to an undercover policeman in the case. Source: AFP