Yasim Mohamed
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Yasim Abdi Mohamed is one of 17 people connected to arrests on June 2 and June 3, 2006 in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He was serving a two year sentence on weapons smuggling charges, which were recently connected to the Toronto group. He was caught bringing a gun across the U.S. border to Canada. He was born in Somalia and immigrated with his parents to Canada. He was sentenced with Mohammed Dirie for the gun smuggling crime.
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 whose names have not been released‡‡‡°.
Suspected colleagues: Syed Ahmed · Ehsanul Sadequee
Later arrests: Ibrahim Aboud‡
Defence Attorneys: Michael Block · Anser Farooq · Rocco Galati · David Kolinsky · Donald McLeod · Arif Raza · Michael A. Moon · Gary Batasar · Faisal Mirza
CSIS Informant: Mubin Shaikh
‡ denotes a suspect was released on bail · ° denotes a suspect had all relevant charges dropped
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