by Aedan Helmer
Source: The Ottawa Sun
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Date: February 3, 2010


Mohamed Harkat categorically denies allegations by the Canadian government that he was an active jihadist and a member of “an international extremist network that supported Osama bin Laden.”

“That’s against my beliefs,” Harkat said Tuesday when asked by defence lawyer Matthew Webber if he supported using violence of any kind.

“It’s against my beliefs for somebody to use violence against a human being.”

Harkat took the stand in his own defence for the second day Tuesday, denying allegations that he ran a safe house for Afghan mujahedeen while he was living in Pakistan in the 1990s, denying that he ran errands and worked as a chauffeur for terrorists, and denying that he had close connections to Ahmed Said Khadr, a known associate of bin Laden.

“That’s not true,” Harkat said.

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