CSIS Mole Inside Ontario Terror Cell

[August1991]

A paid police informant who calls himself "an observant Muslim" infiltrated a group of men and youths arrested last month and charged with plotting to carry out bomb attacks and kidnappings around southern Ontario, CBC News has learned.

Mubin Shaikh spoke exclusively to Linden McIntyre of CBC's The Fifth Estate. (CBC) The informant, who spoke exclusively to Linden McIntyre of CBC's The Fifth Estate, is 29-year-old Mubin Shaikh, a prominent member of Toronto's Indo-Canadian Muslim community. He was born in Canada to immigrant parents.

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Shaikh told CBC News that he had worked undercover for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and the police for more than two years, much of that time with the suspects in the alleged bomb plots.

Shaikh, a former army cadet and Canadian Armed Forces reservist, describes the suspects as "fruitcakes...with the capacity to do some real damage."

CBC

An Indo-Canadian. This is good police work, and it also shows that we will have to (and we can) rely on moderate Muslims.

[geoffrey]

I'm watching something on CBC about this now, looks interesting. Way to go moderates.

[jbg]

If there were more of those, the bigotry against Muslims would be over. This guy has courage and a heart of gold.