Country Reports on Terrorism 2012

Also on December 14, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal of an
extradition order to the United States of Piratheepan Nadarajah and Suresh
Sriskandarajah, to stand trial on charges of attempting to purchase surface-to-air missiles
and other weaponry in the United States for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The
court ordered the men surrendered to U.S. authorities. Delivered in conjunction with the
ruling in the Khawaja case, the court rejected the appellants' arguments that the definition
of terrorist activity in the 2001 Anti-terrorism Act was overly broad.
As of December 2012, three men arrested and charged in August 2010 in an alleged
conspiracy to bomb targets in Ottawa, and participate in and facilitate terrorist activity
continued to await trial. In 2011 authorities released Misbahuddin Ahmed and Khurram
Sher on bail. The third member of the group, Hiva Alizadeh, remained in custody.
During the year, two other Federal Court reviews continued to determine the
reasonableness of security certificates against alleged terrorist suspects Mahmoud
Jaballah and Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub.
Cooperation sought during the previous five years in the investigation or prosecution of an act of
international terrorism against U.S. citizens or interests included:
In January 2011, Canadian authorities arrested Canadian-Iraqi citizen Faruq Khalil
Muhammad in response to U.S. charges that he helped coordinate Tunisian violent
extremists believed responsible for separate suicide attacks in Iraq in 2009 that killed five
American soldiers outside a U.S. base and seven people at an Iraqi police complex. The
Alberta provincial court ruled in October 2012 there was sufficient evidence to extradite
Faruq to the United States; Faruq continued to appeal his extradition.
Authorities use biometric systems at Canadian ports of entry. Canada plans to introduce epassports
containing electronic chips with biometric information and radio frequency
identification technology used to authenticate the identity of travelers. Canada has required
fingerprints from refugee claimants, detainees, and individuals ordered to be deported from
Canada since 1993. The Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting fingerprints from
detainees and people under removal order from Canada from the same year. On December 13,
2012, the Canada-U.S. Visa and Immigration Information Sharing Agreement was signed. Once
it enters into force after Canadian ratification, and implementing arrangements have been
concluded, it is expected that both countries will share biographic and biometric information to
assist in decision making in cases where third-country nationals are applying for visas,
admission, asylum, or other immigration benefits and in immigration enforcement proceedings.
Canada continued to exchange a limited number of fingerprint records with the United States in
an effort to counter fraud and reduce the abuse of respective immigration programs as part of the
High Value Data Sharing Protocol signed in 2009 with the United States, the UK, Australia, and
New Zealand. Canada also works with international partner countries through the Five <strong>Country</strong>
Conference forum on biometric information sharing.
Countering Terrorist Finance: Canada is a member of the Financial Action Task Force, the
Egmont Group, the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, and is a supporting nation of the
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. Canada is also an observer in the Council of Europe’s
Select Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the
Financial Action Task Force of South America against Money Laundering.
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