Terror Suspects Plotted Bombing Airplane: CSIS

Leaked documents provide some explanation for why two men have been detained or monitored by the feds for the last decade.

A report from La Presse says the reason the federal government believes two men – Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui – are terror suspects is that the pair had a phone conversation in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane flying from Montreal to Paris. The two men allegedly discussed detonating explosives hidden in a keychain aboard the flight. CSIS apparently intercepted the phone call and used that as the grounds for keeping Abdelrazik and Charkaoui under a close watch for the better part of the decade. Charkaoui was imprisoned on a security certificate for six years before being released in 2009 due to a lack of evidence. Abdelrazik and Charkaoui have consistently denied having any links to terrorism, and Charkaoui has claimed he is only a casual acquaintance of Abdelrazik, who has also been accused of visiting al-Qaeda training camps in the 1990s.