Zakaria Amara
The federal government has revoked the citizenship of Zakaria Amara, the young man who organized a band of would-be terrorists in a plot to set enormous truck bombs at many points in downtown Toronto. Amara remains in federal prison. He holds Jordanian citizenship and might be deported there on his release. At his trial in 2010, Amara agreed to details of the plot in which he intended to rent U-Haul trucks, load them with ammonia nitrate bombs and detonate them by remote control He told undercover Mounties that this was to be The Battle of Toronto. He set up a camp in Northern Ontario where he trained his followers. They became known in the media as the Toronto 18. In recent days, conspirators Asad Ansari and Saad Khalid have also been informed by letter they will be stripped of citizenship under Bill C-24 passed last May. According to the CBC, Mohamed Hersi, convicted of trying to join the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab, has also received a letter.
