Lawyers Go On Offensive Against Suspected Terrorist

The Associated Press
March 1, 2001

 

TORONTO - Lawyers for the federal Department of Justice spent Thursday trying to discredit an Egyptian refugee accused by Canada's spy agency of being an international terrorist.

There are some elements of Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub's version of events dating back to 1991 that simply don't make sense, lawyer Robert Batt told the man's deportation hearing.

Egyptian authorities have believed for 15 years that Mahjoub is part of an Islamic organization led by terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Mahjoub, an agricultural engineer by trade, has already admitted to working for 16 months on a farm operated in the Sudan by bin Laden, but has insisted he had no idea of the millionaire Saudi's links to international terrorism.

 

Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

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