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Canada also continues to be an attractive refuge for extremists. Hani al-Sayegh, a refugee claimant, was involved in the Al Khobar bombings in Saudia Arabia in 1996. Ahmed Ressam, a failed refugee claimant, planned an attack at the Los Angeles airport from Montreal in the late 1990s and has been subsequently tried and convicted in the U.S. court. A number of these extremists, we believe, came to Canada to continue their activities and are being held under national security certificates. These include Mohamed Majoub, a member of the Vanguards of Conquest, a radical wing of the Egyptian-Islamic Jihad; Mahmoud Jaballa, a senior operative of the Egyptian-Islamic terrorist organization al Jihad and al-Qaeda; Hassan Almrei and Mohamed Harkat, both suspected members of the bin Laden network, and Adil Charkaoui, a suspected member of the al-Qaeda network.
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