A leader of an extremist Muslim group that planned to bomb landmarks in downtown Toronto in the 2006 Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole.
A two-member panel of the Parole Board of Canada released the decision on Oct. 16, saying Zakaria Amara, 41, no longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
Amara recruited members for a group that planned to storm Parliament Hill, behead then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and bomb several locations throughout Toronto, such as the CN Tower and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The group made headlines in June 2006 after they were arrested attempting to buy three tonnes of ammonium nitrate from undercover police officers—the same chemical used in the Oklahoma City bombings….