Crime
GUILTY; Home Grown ISIS Cell Convicted of First Degree Murder
News release from Honking for Freedom
By John Goddard
Three assailants await sentencing in the Chicken Land shooting |
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It was a murder trial like no other. During the trial, a suspected Islamic terrorist who according to testimony pledged loyalty to ISIS, sat next to me. The crime-scene photos were X-rated, the text messages between suspects obscene, and the police work so superb that nearly every move of the defendants was accounted for. |
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In the end, the jury found all three men guilty in a shooting spree meant to eliminate an entire family at their takeout restaurant, Chicken Land, in Mississauga just outside Toronto. One young man died on the spot. The others survived, including one man shot through the neck and another in the chest. |
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It was an unprecedented crime in Canada, an entire family targeted for execution at their workplace, but the trial was also extraordinary for something else. On the opening day, Crown prosecutor David D’Iorio rose to say that the three men — with others — had established a home-grown terrorist cell affiliated with ISIS, the Islamic State. One of the Chicken Land family members had learned about it and had mused that he might tell the police. In ISIS logic, that meant he and his family had to go. |
“An extreme crime with an extremist motive,” co-prosecutor Brian McGuire called it. Of the other terrorist cell members, said to number between 10 and 12, all that was mentioned was that the RCMP is pursuing an ongoing investigation, another astonishing detail presumably meaning they still walk among us. Well, not presumably. At one point in the trial, text messages from one of the defendants showed that he sent money to his brother in Pakistan for jihad — Islamic terrorism. The brother, now back in Canada, sometimes sat next to me in court. The three convicted killers are: Naqash Abbasi, 34, the organizer; Suliman Raza, 28, the getaway driver; and Anand Nath, 23, the shooter. All were found equally guilty of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder.
They were running a business near Toronto’s Pearson International Airport that involved a warehouse that doubled as a mosque and dawa centre, a place for inviting non-Muslims to Islam. The shooter was a convert. The young family member killed at Chicken Land, Naim Akl, had gone to work for the men and had also converted. When Akl discovered the ISIS connection, he left Islam and returned to the family restaurant. The trial imparted details I thought would never come to light. Three years had passed since the shootings, a long time. I suspected a plea bargain was being negotiated to avoid police and prosecutors being labelled “Islamophobic,” a made-up notion pushed internationally by the Muslim Brotherhood and nationally by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). The police and prosecutors would also have had other reasons not to push ahead. The accused men were clearly dangerous, willing to wipe out a family to try to keep a secret. The Crown’s star witness, who knew the three men, asked for and received witness protection, likely including relocation and a new identity. Two bodyguards escorted him to and from court on the days he testified. Courageously and brilliantly, however, the prosecutors brought the case to trial, and the lead investigators from Peel Regional Police sat with them every day in open court. The question now is whether, with their terrorism case, the RCMP will do the same. The date for sentencing the three killers has yet to be set, but first-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years. I am writing a book with the working title, The Chicken Land Shootings: A Crime Within a Crime.
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Crime
Conservative MP introduces bill to specifically criminalize arson of churches, starting of wildfires
Conservative MP Marc Dalton
From LifeSiteNews
Arson targeting places of worship would be punishable by “imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of five years”
A new bill be a Conservative MP has been introduced into Parliament and seeks to create specific criminal offenses for setting fires to churches and for starting wildfires.
On June 21, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Marc Dalton introduced a private member’s bill which would amend the Criminal Code to include specific offenses for arson targeting places of worship and starting wildfires.
“This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create an offence for causing a wildfire and an offence for causing damage by fire or explosion to a place of worship,” a summary of the legislation reads.
“It also requires a court to consider as aggravating circumstances, in the context of arson by negligence, the fact that it resulted in a wildfire or the destruction of a place of worship,” it continues.
Under the new legislation, arson targeting places of worship would be punishable by “imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of five years” for the first offence.
“For each subsequent offence, imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment for a term of seven years,” the legislation stated.
The legislation also outlines consequences for starting wildfires of fines up to $250,000 and life imprisonment.
The bill comes after a devastating fire at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto destroyed priceless artwork earlier this month, and following last year’s wildfire season, which the mainstream blamed on “climate change” despite the fact that the vast majority of fires were human-caused.
Built in 1908, St. Anne’s, a Byzantine-style building, burned almost to the ground in a matter of hours. While the fire at St. Anne’s has not been confirmed to be caused by arson, over one hundred Christian churches have been intentionally set ablaze or otherwise vandalized in the last number of years.
The attacks began shortly after the federal government and mainstream media promoted the still baseless and inflammatory claim that hundreds of indigenous children were killed or improperly disposed of at the sites of residential schools once run by the Catholic Church. The claims, which are promoted by Trudeau and mainstream media, continue despite not one body having been found.
This is hardly the first time a Conservative MP has introduced legislation to condemn the ongoing church burnings, but each time the legislation has been dismissed by Liberal and New Democratic Party (NDP) MPs.
In February, Liberal and NDP MPs quickly shut down a Conservative motion to condemn an attack against a Catholic church in Regina, Saskatchewan. The motion was shut down even though there was surveillance footage of a man, who was later arrested, starting the fire.
Similarly, in October, Liberal and NDP MPs voted to adjourn rather than consider a motion that would denounce the arson and vandalism against 83 Canadian churches, especially those within Indigenous communities.
Despite this, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to openly condemn the arson attacks, instead saying in 2021 that it is “unacceptable and wrong” for churches to be burned, but adding that the burnings are also “understandable.”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has taken a similar approach to Trudeau, even running a report recently that appeared to justify the dozens of attacks against Catholic churches.
News release from the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT)
Five firearms were seized alongside nearly a quarter million dollars’ in drugs and cash after a Red Deer home was searched.
ALERT Red Deer’s organized crime team searched the home on May 23, 2024 with help from Red Deer RCMP. The home, located in the Eastview neighbourhood, contained a large amount of drugs and firearms with five suspects being arrested.
“None of these firearms were lawfully possessed and are instruments of the drug trade. There’s an inherent violence with drug trafficking that threatens all of our safety,” said Insp. Brad Lundeen, ALERT Regional.
The drugs seized have an estimated street value of $220,000 and include:
- Five firearms;
- 670 grams of cocaine;
- 336 grams of MDMA;
- 90 grams of methamphetamine;
- 76 suspected methamphetamine pills;
- 71 opioid pills;
- 494 illicit prescription pills;
- 4.4 litres of GHB;
- 1,313 grams of cannabis;
- $96,440 cash.
One of the firearms, a loaded 40-caliber handgun, had previously been reported as stolen. Two of the firearms also had their serial number tampered. The seized firearms will be sent to ALERT’s Provincial Firearms Solutions Lab for ballistics testing and analysis.
Five suspects, ranging in age from 32 to 51 years old, were arrested but charges have yet to been laid. The investigation remains ongoing as investigators prepare reports and disclosure for Crown Counsel.
ALERT’s investigation began in January 2024 in response to drug trafficking in the Red Deer area.
Members of the public who suspect drug or gang activity in their community can call local police, or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Crime Stoppers is always anonymous.
ALERT was established and is funded by the Alberta Government and is a compilation of the province’s most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.
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