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Officers answer questions from reporters after RCMP charged a youth with terrorism, in Kingston, Ontario The Canadian Press/PA Images

Child charged with facilitating terrorist activity and advising person detonate explosive device in Canada

Canadian police arrested the child in Kingston, Ontario on Thursday.

A CHILD HAS been arrested in Canada and charged with two terror-related offences after a joint inquiry with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, police said on Friday.

The child, whose identity is protected under Canadian law, was charged with knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity and counseling a person to deliver, place, discharge or detonate an explosive device with intent to cause death or serious bodily injury.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also arrested a second suspect, an adult male, on Thursday night in the city of Kingston in Ontario province, which borders the United States, but has not been charged.

The RCMP specified that no terror act was committed.

The Canadian police led the probe with the FBI, provincial and local police as well as Canada’s Security Intelligence Service.

Public broadcaster CBC named the adult arrested but not charged as 20-year-old Hussam Eddin Alzahabi, and reported that he was believed to be of Syrian descent.

Alzahabi’s parents arrived in Canada as refugees in 2017, after living in Kuwait for nearly a decade.

“They tell me they search about him about terrorists. I know my son, he didn’t think about that,” Alzahabi’s father Amin told the CBC.

“Earlier today, RCMP and partners took action in Kingston, based on credible information, to ensure public safety,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Twitter.

“Canada’s threat level remains at medium, where it has stood since 2014.”

The RCMP and Goodale were to give a press conference later Friday on the investigation.

- © AFP 2019

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:09 AM

    @PC Principal: Looks like a video straight from Israel. I am sure that if we did a video of Israeli soldiers blowing kids to bits with the same background using footage from their last 12 months massacre it would be worse. Or show english military facilitated bombings in Yemen that left 48,000 children dead. Is that the best england can get?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:42 AM

    @Cal Mooney: the US killed 20% of the north Korean population. They had no anti aircraft weaponry so the US could bomb freely. White phosphorus was dropped on civilians in Iraq. White phosphorus when ignited doesn’t stop burning. It will go right down to the bone. One incident in a village in Vietnam up to 504 mostly civilian women and children were beaten, raped , tortured and murdered by US soldiers. One only perpetrator was sent to prison. Originally it was a life sentence then 10 years but he only served 3. The whistle blowers were criticized by us congressmen. During the Philippino war in the space of 11 days Us soldiers killed up to 50,000 civilians with the commanding officer instructing the troops to kill anyone over 10 years old.
    These are just a few of many many incidents

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:48 AM

    @Cal Mooney: Your bang on.true story.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 1:03 AM

    @Toby Fish: And THAT is the reason why North Korea wants Nuclear weapons, Once you have a chip at the big table, you will eventually be listened to, Israel is reputed to have 300 of them and aren`t part of the Nuclear treaty, But not a word said about that, If ot is true, apparently it is a bigger arsenal than China, which according to 2016 reports stand at 260

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    Jan 26th 2019, 5:28 PM

    @Toby Fish: The North Koreans had anti aircraft weapons. The USAF lost 550 aircraft to. N Korean AAA and 140 due to aerial combat. Unless you want to claim the USAF aircraft were knocked down by magic or sticks and stones . Learn the difference between a casualty and a death. A 20% casualty rate does not mean that 20% died. On average a casualty figure includes death so about 1/3 or 33% approx of the actual figures would be deaths. So as you don’t know what you are talking about I think we will have to treat your little unfounded rant with quite a lot of contempt.

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    Jan 25th 2019, 11:03 PM

    RCMP charge Kingston youth with terrorism-related offences over alleged bomb plot; Kingston man, 20, released without charges – 40 minutes ago…
    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/01/25/rcmp-charge-kingston-youth-with-terrorism-related-offences-over-alleged-bomb-plot.html

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:18 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: I do have to question the surprise of any western media when a Jihadi family who left Syria on the grounds that they felt Syria wasn’t safe for Jihadis anymore because the official government cracked down on Jihadis then finds itself a potential victim of a Jihadi attack. Let Syria deal with the Jihadis. They aren’t our problem unless we let them in.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:48 AM

    @Cal Mooney: Sometimes i agree with your posts mate, But you got to remember that this family was in Kuwait for a decade , 2007, well before the Syrian war began, and he has been released without charge, possibly a case of mistaken intel.
    Sometimes Human error is all there is to blame, especially when it was the US who tipped them off

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:51 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: Apologies, I genuinely defer to your background knowledge. Mea Culpa.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 12:58 AM

    @Cal Mooney: Keep up the good fight mate

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    Jan 26th 2019, 1:13 AM

    Build the wall!….Oh wait.

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