MPs vote to probe how a father and son linked to a terror plot got to Canada
CBC
WARNING: This story includes descriptions of graphic violence
MPs of all stripes have agreed to investigate how a father and son accused of planning a terror attack in Toronto were allowed into Canada despite claims that the father had taken part in a violent terrorist assault overseas.
The House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security voted unanimously Tuesday to study the case and to question the ministers of public safety and immigration and other senior security and intelligence officials.
The committee's probe will run parallel to the ongoing court case against Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his son Mostafa Eldidi, 26. Police have said the two men were "in the advanced stages of planning a serious, violent attack in Toronto."
Police say the father has Canadian citizenship, while the son does not.
They face nine charges in total, including conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit or at the direction of a terrorist group.
The father is also accused of committing an aggravated assault in 2015 for the benefit of the Islamic State somewhere outside of Canada.
There is a publication ban on the case.
The push to get the committee to study the case was started by Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer, who told reporters last week his party has questions about the immigration screening process for both men.
Part of the Conservatives' questioning centres on a video which allegedly shows the aggravated assault.
Jihadology.net, a U.S. website that catalogues Islamic State communiques and propaganda, posted what appears to be the video in question on June 16, 2015 — the same day it appeared on an ISIS-affiliated website.
CBC News has viewed the four-minute video, said to have been shot in what the Islamic State called Dijlah province in western Iraq, near the Syrian border.
Entitled "Deterring the Spies #1," the video is slickly packaged with Islamic State graphics and music. It features the interrogation of a bearded prisoner wearing an orange jumpsuit. The video shows the prisoner lit by a bright light and sitting in a cell as he answers questions shouted by someone off camera.
After a section of readings from the Qur'an, the prisoner then appears hoisted on a wooden frame in the desert, bound tightly with load straps. It is not clear from the video whether the prisoner is alive or dead at this point.
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