‘Ottawa’ CSIS Knew intimate Details of Suspected Terrorist’s Final Hours Before Leaving Canada, RCMP Informed Months Later
In 2013, while the RCMP were still investigating how a suspected terrorist had quietly left Canada to join ISIL the previous year, Canada’s spy agency informed the Mounties they had in fact already known the intimate details of the terrorism suspect’s final hours before he boarded a plane for Syria, new court records reveal.
John Maguire left Canada in December 2012 to join ISIL in Syria, where he was featured in a propaganda video declaring religious war on his home country. The Islamic State reported Maguire died fighting in 2015, though his death has never been confirmed.
Before he left for Syria, Maguire was the alleged star terrorism recruit of Ottawa’s Awso Peshdary, 26, who was charged in February 2015 with recruiting, financing and facilitating terrorism.
And the RCMP’s case against Peshdary is where new details have emerged about the Mounties investigation into an alleged Ottawa terror network.