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| Canadian insurance company wins appeal against wife of Palestinian terrorist |
| 2020-02-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Fadia Khalil Mohammad, whose husband attacked an El Al plane, sought to cash in on life insurance policy; firm said it was invalidated because he hid his past. The wife of a Paleostinian terrorist who hijacked an Israeli El Al airplane cannot collect on her husband’s life insurance because he did not disclose his terrorist past when he took out the policy in 1987. The Ontario Court of Appeals last week overturned a lower court decision and ruled against Fadia Khalil Mohammad, the Canadian Press reported. She was the wife of Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, who stormed an Israeli airliner in Athens in 1968 shooting and throwing grenades, killing one passenger. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Greek courts. Later that year, however, Mohammad was freed when Paleostinian bully boyz stormed another plane and demanded his release. He moved to Leb and then, under an alias, to Canada in 1987 and settled in Brantford, Ontario. Mohammad was deported to Leb in 2013, nearly 15 years after proceedings began to strip him of his citizenship for lying about his terrorist past in order to immigrate to Canada. He died there of cancer in 2015. His wife, as sole beneficiary, sought to collect on the $75,000 policy issued by the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. When he applied for the policy, Mohammad said he had just moved to Canada from Spain and provided a social insurance number, according to court records, the Canadian Press reported. He was not asked about his citizenship or residency status, or any convictions. He did not offer such information. The insurance company in refusing to pay his widow said that Mohammad’s failure to disclose material facts had voided the policy. The Appeals Court agreed, pointing out that insurance legislation requires applicants to disclose all facts material to the insurance, and that his past increased the risk of insuring him. |
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| Canada deports convicted terrorist after 26 years of appeals |
| 2013-05-13 |
| Canadas immigration minister says a convicted Palestinian terrorist who once hijacked an airliner has been deported from Canada 26 years after entering the country using an alias. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday that Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad made a false refugee claim in 1987. The government later learned he was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and had participated in a terrorist attack on an Israeli plane in Greece, which killed an Israeli citizen in 1968. Kenney says Mohammad was convicted in Greece, but was freed before completing his sentence as part of the resolution of another hostage taking. Kenney says Mohammad treated Canadas government like suckers and was deported to Lebanon on Saturday. He says he has status there because his wife is from Lebanon. |
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| French terrorist bombing suspect allegedly taking refuge in Canada | ||
| 2007-10-13 | ||
| Canada's Jewish community is expressing hope that federal security agencies will bring to justice the perpetrator in a terrorist cold case in France who has allegedly taken refuge in this country. Yesterday, Le Figaro reported that European security agencies are looking for help tracking down a fugitive who used a motorcycle bomb to kill four people and wound 20 others in an October, 1980 attack in Paris. The identity of the suspect had long been unknown. But authorities have recently identified him as a 55-year-old naturalized Canadian of Arab origin who now lives in Canada after spending years in the United States. The Copernic Road synagogue bombing, which prompted massive rallies against anti-Semitism in France, continues to send ripples of fear today - it's considered one of the reasons that security is increased in synagogues during the High Holidays. "It's the major incident that started a way in the thinking of Jewish communities around the world," said Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress. "It's one of the first times there was a serious bombing outside the Middle East on sovereign territory - French territory, in Paris - aimed specifically at Jews." Mr. Farber said that while Canada has had "a spotty history" in dealing with terrorists, he is hopeful federal agencies will play a key role in tracking down and extraditing the suspect. "It's a new era, it's a new government," he said. "They have committed themselves to dealing properly and forthrightly with terrorism. This will be a good test case."
French authorities are said to be angered by the leak of their reinvigorated investigation, and have not divulged the suspect's identity. Canadian officials and the French embassy in Ottawa had little to say yesterday. "Communications between states are confidential," said Chris Girouard of the Canadian Department of Justice. Jean-Christophe Fleury, of the French embassy in Ottawa, said he was not free to comment.
Ottawa officials have now twice failed to deport an alleged member named Issam Al Yamani. The government alleged he was involved in a 1977 United Arab Emirates bombing. But in one of the rulings, a Federal Court judge said the suspect was not a threat given that the PFLP was "not the potent organization it once was, nor is it the radical terrorist organization that it was in the early seventies." Canada has also taken criticism for the so-called "Triple-M" case. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a PFLP member who allegedly killed an Israeli citizen while hijacking a plane in 1968, has spent nearly 20 years resisting the government's attempts to deport him on the grounds he entered Canada under false pretenses. While Mr. Farber said he has faith in the Canadian police to track down terrorists, he said the "glacial pace" of the Canadian criminal-justice system remains troubling. But he said his group and counterparts in France are glad authorities never closed the books on the hunt for the synagogue bomber. "There is no statute of limitations when it comes to murder," Mr. Farber said. | ||
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