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Canada to appeal terror plotter’s sentence (AFP)
convicted of plotting to bomb Canada's main bourse and other targets.
Saad Gaya, 21, was sentenced in January to 12 years in prison for his role in the foiled 2006 bomb plot aimed at provoking a Canadian withdrawal from
. He pleaded guilty to the “terrorism” charges in September.
demanded a harsher punishment.
Gaya was a member of the so-called Toronto 18 group that plotted to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's spy agency offices and a military base using fertilizer explosives packed in rented trucks.
in 2006 and charged with participating in a “terrorist” group and attempting to “cause an explosion.”
Specifically, they aimed to “acquire explosive substances and cause an explosion or explosions for religiously-inspired political purposes,” said court documents.
, who had switched it with an inert substance.
Gaya's motivation “was to pressure Canada into withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the religious aspect being to protect a Muslim country from attack,” said prosecutors.
His lawyer Paul Slansky told reporters after his sentencing: “Terrorism is a terrible and heinous crime but not everyone that commits a heinous and evil crime is themselves evil.
“I do believe that he was a misguided youth who made some seriously erroneous mistakes in deciding to trust these people who were themselves misguided,” he said.