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Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, the ringleader of an organization accused with plotting attacks in Canada, pleaded guilty to possession of explosives with intent to cause harm as a part of a terror conspiracy, and received a 24-year prison sentence from a court in Ottawa.
He pled guilty in court on Wednesday under a deal his lawyers made with the Crown. He has already served a year and half of the four years he has served, meaning he will serve 18 more years in prison. He also apologized in court, and said that he wants to be de-radicalized.
Presiding Justice Colin McKinnon told Alizadeh that he was effectively guilty of treason, and that he had betrayed his community and his family.
Alizadeh is one of the three men arrested in 2010 and charged after an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mountee Police (RCMP). Misbahuddin Ahmed, an X-ray technologist from Ottawa, is awaiting his sentence after he was guilty of conspiring to facilitate a terrorist activity and to take part in a terrorist group’s activities. Former pathologist Khurram Sher, the third man whose voice was on the police recordings, was judged not guilty of planning terrorist activity in August.
In the agreed statement of facts which was submitted with the plea, the defense outlined Alizadeh’s work to help create the terrorist organization in Canada in the months before his arrest.
In the statement, Alizadeh says that he had gone to a terrorist camp in Afghanistan back in 2009 and stayed there for two months, receiving training in the use of weapons and on how to create remote-controlled IEDs. He also smuggled propaganda videos, instruction material on building triggering devices and Fifty-six electronic circuit boards made to remotely detonate IEDs.
He also maintained contact with Kurdish radicals loosely associated with the Taliban. After returning to Canada, he wanted to start a group of his own in Ottawa. In February, he met with Ahmed and attempted to radicalize him; In July 2010, the two met with Sher and tried to recruit him.