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Man with al-Qaida links charged with threatening attack in Montreal

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 06 Jun, 2025 10:59 AM
  • Man with al-Qaida links charged with threatening attack in Montreal

man previously convicted of supporting al-Qaida has been charged after allegedly threatening an attack in Montreal

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, allegedly told an employee at a homeless shelter in Montreal that he wanted to build bombs to detonate on public transit. 

He has been charged with uttering threats and appeared at the Montreal courthouse this morning by videoconference.

The RCMP confirmed that the same man pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaida. He was deported to Canada in 2010 and had no fixed address at the time of the alleged incident. 

The Old Mission Brewery, which runs several homeless shelters in Montreal, contacted Montreal police after Warsame allegedly said on May 27 that he wanted to carry out an attack that would kill a large number of people. 

Warsame was hospitalized for psychiatric reasons, and was arrested by the RCMP on Wednesday afternoon. He will appear in court again Friday morning. 

According to his 2009 plea agreement, the Somali-born Canadian travelled to Afghanistan in 2000 to attend al-Qaida training camps, where he met the organization's founder, Osama bin Laden. He later sent money to one of his training camp commanders. 

Warsame then relocated to Minneapolis, where he continued to provide information to al-Qaida associates throughout 2002 and 2003. He was arrested in December 2003. 

In 2009, Warsame was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison with credit for time served. He was deported to Canada in October 2010. 

Picture Courtesy: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

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