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Terror plot ringleader of Jihadist group 'Toronto 18,' which planned to bomb several locations and storm government, granted full release because parole board says he's 'polite and quiet'

2026-10-18

[DM] The 'mastermind and chief organizer' of a terrorist plot to bomb three government buildings in Toronto

…including the government building and beheading the prime minister in wht was to have been Canada’s 9/11…

is now roaming the streets after a parole board cited his 'respectful, polite and quiet' demeanor.

Zakaria Amara,

…the Jordanian-born Canadian citizen was the mastermind of the Toronto 18, who were inspired by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. His presumably lovely wife, Nada Farooq, discussed putting a clause in her prenup giving her divorce if he did not go in for jihad…

now 41, pleaded guilty in 2009 in the Canadian Superior Court of Justice, three years after he planned the extremist attack. A massive police investigation thwarted the plot.

Amara was sentenced to nine years in prison for organizing a training camp for terrorist recruits and to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years for plotting to construct a bomb. He was arrested on the day bomb-making materials were delivered to a warehouse.

He appealed his sentence in 2010, but the court denied it. However, the parole board granted Amara day parole in 2022, a form of conditional release in a supervised residential facility.

The Parole Board of Canada in Ontario granted Amara full parole on Friday. The written decision, obtained by the Canadian Press, said he no longer showed 'any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.'

The board praised Amara for reintegrating into society during day parole, noting that he rehabilitated and demonstrated a 'positive change, both in attitude and in behavior.'

He harbored extremist values behind bars but officials documented an ideological shift in 2014 and he was transferred to a minimum-security prison, according to the written decision.

'During the latter part of your federal custody and for the past four years in the community, you have undertaken a process to distance yourself from extremist ideologies and others who share the same views,' the board wrote.

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