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| Student jailed for terrorism returns to Canada |
| 2013-07-29 |
| A Canadian jailed in Mauritania for trying to join an Al-Qaeda training camp in neighboring Mali has been released and is back in Canada. Aaron Yoon, who is of Korean descent and a convert to Islam from Catholicism, arrived in Toronto. He had served almost two years in Nouakchott after being convicted in July last year. Yoon had been detained in December 2011 when he tried to visit the camps of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali, according to an indictment against him. He denied any links to terrorism, saying he had come to Mauritania from Morocco to study the Koran and learn Arabic, but Mauritanian authorities contended he had "strong links with AQIM terrorists and his plan to join the movement is indisputable." The same month, two of Yoon's former schoolmates who grew up with him in London, Ontario and traveled abroad with him were among 29 militants and their 38 hostages killed during a days-long siege and rescue operation at an Algerian gas plant. Canadian police and intelligence have said they may wish to speak with Yoon. |
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