Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Date: February 4, 2010
Suspected terrorist rejects accusation he cooked up plan to join jihad
Mohamed Harkat Wednesday rejected a government assertion that his flight from Algeria in 1989 to Saudi Arabia to escape arrest was really part of an elaborate plan to become a jihadist.
Government lawyer David Tyndale, during cross-examination of the former Ottawa gas station attendant, suggested Harkat was never in danger in Algeria, but cooked up the escape plan as a cover for his Afghan adventure.
Harkat said it made no sense for him to quit university where he was studying to be an engineer, and give up a promising life. He insisted his was life in danger then, as, he said, it is now if he ends up in his homeland.
"I will get arrested and I will pay the price," he said.
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