A Montreal man previously convicted in the United States of supporting al-Qaida is scheduled to appear in court today as he faces multiple terrorism-related charges in Quebec.<\/p>\n
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, is facing a terrorism charge after allegedly telling a worker at the Old Brewery Mission shelter in Montreal that he knew how to make explosives and wanted to build bombs to use on public transit to kill a large number of people.<\/p>\n
Warsame is also facing two additional provincial charges, uttering threats and another terrorism count, for allegedly threatening to burn, destroy or damage Passport Canada offices in Montreal and Quebec City.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege the threats were made during four phone calls on Nov. 20 while Warsame was detained at the Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies detention centre.<\/p>\n
Warsame previously underwent a psychiatric evaluation at the Philippe-Pinel Psychiatric Institute to determine whether he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the alleged offences. The report has not yet been made public.<\/p>\n
According to U.S. authorities, Warsame, a Somali-born Canadian, pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to al-Qaida after attending lectures by Osama bin Laden. He served 92 months in a U.S. federal prison before being deported to Canada in 2010.<\/p>\n
His lawyer has said Warsame currently has no affiliation with any terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Montreal man previously convicted in the United States of supporting al-Qaida is scheduled to appear in court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-524576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}