Saad Gaya, 28, was sentenced to 18 years prison 2010 for plottg to bomb three Toronto targets
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SAAD GAYA
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Saad Gaya, now 34, was 18 when he was arrted 2006.
A nvicted terrorist who was born and raised Canada is askg a urt to quash the feral ernment's attempt to strip him of his Canadian an applitn to the Feral Court, Saad Gaya says revokg his Canadian cizenship would nstute "cel and unual treatment. " Misbahudd Ahmed challeng feral move to revoke cizenship over terrorismToronto 18's Zakaria Amara among 1st to lose cizenship unr Bill C-24Gaya, who is servg an 18-year sentence for his role the Toronto 18 bomb plot, is one of at least four men nvicted of terrorism who have received notic om the ernment sayg tends to strip them of their Gaya is the only one who was born Canada. 18, the feral ernment is allegg that Gaya's parents had their Pakistani cizenship retroactively rtored on that claim, the ernment says that strippg Gaya of his cizenship would not renr him statels bee he retroactively beme a dual natnal the moment his parents did.
CANADIAN-BORN SAAD GAYA, NVICTED TERRORIST, TARGETED FOR REVOTN OF CIZENSHIP
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Civil Liberti Associatn, Josh Paterson, discs his charter challenge of Bill C-24'Double punishment'Gaya's lawyer is argug urt that "the act impos an unfair on on the dividual to tablish that revotn would not renr them statels. "Waldman argu urt documents that Gaya "has never applied for Pakistani cizenship" and ni that he has .
Conservative Parm Gill, who appeared on CBC News Network's Power & Polics, told CBC's Rosemary Barton that he was "absolutely unaware" of the ernment's efforts to strip Gaya of his received the ernment's notice on Aug. Saad Gaya is now a lawyer who speaks agast extremism. Saad Gaya has appealed to the Feral Court to be taken off Canada's no-fly list.
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Saad Gaya was part of the Toronto 18 terrorism nspiracy that was thwarted by police 2006. He was released om prison and has bee a lawyer who speaks agast extremist disvered he was on Canada’s no-fly list when he tried to board a flight to Montreal, where he was to attend a meetg at the Centre for the Preventn of Radilizatn Leadg to the ernment rejected his ternal appeal last November, Gaya filed a se the Feral Court January seekg to be taken off the no-fly list, newly-released documents show. Gaya also wants parts of the law that allows the ernment to ban Canadians om air travel over terrorism ncerns to be clared “unnstutnal and of no force and effect.
On June 30, the urt led on procral aspects of the s but they rema age 18, Gaya was reced by rglear Zakaria Amara, who was planng to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian Secury Intelligence Service Toronto office and a ary nspirators thought the attacks would prompt Canada to pull s troops out of Afghanistan.
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The urt lled Gaya a “willg and active participant” the bomb plot. Gaya was arrted while unloadg three tons of what he thought was ammonium nrate om a rented tck to a storage facily Newmarket, Ont. Acrdg to Gaya’s appeal of the no-fly list cisn, he has turned himself around and is no longer a secury threat.
Gaya unrtook a well-documented journey of rehabilatn, ” acrdg to a document filed urt by his lawyer, Zachary graduated om universy and “gaed tremendo sight to his prev radilizatn though unselg and by engagg wh muny anizatns that work unterg vlent extremism. Earlier this fall, the two spects -- Saad Khalid, 24, and Saad Gaya, 21, plead guilty to their role the plot.