Facebook /Ramanan Mylvaganam pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 15-year imprisonment.

U.S. wants 15 years for Toronto man convicted in Tamil Tigers terror plot
Stewart Bell Apr 30, 2012 – 7:43 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 30, 2012 7:44 AM ET

Ramanan Mylvaganam pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 15-year imprisonment.
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a Canadian who pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy for his role in a plot to supply separatist rebels in Sri Lanka.

In a sentencing report filed in a Brooklyn, N.Y. court, U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch said Ramanan Mylvaganam had committed “a gravely serious offence” by attempting to procure equipment for the Tamil rebels.

“Any sentence other than a substantial sentence of incarceration risks undermining respect for the law by suggesting that a defendant can evade serious punishment for providing material support to a terrorist organization,” she wrote.

Omar Khadr image from video leaked to CBS

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer was killed by terrorist Khadr

Convicted terrorist Khadr coming home: Toews

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MARK DUNN | QMI AGENCY

OTTAWA – Convicted al-Qaida terrorist and killer Omar Khadr is coming home.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Thursday the government won’t block the transfer of Khadr from a cell in the Caribbean to a Canadian prison.

Toews squelched speculation the government was considering using a clause in the International Transfer of Offenders Act to keep the 25-year-old, Toronto-born Khadr out of Canada on national security grounds.

Ottawa university professor Hassan Diab has been ordered extradited to France. Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington , Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa professor to be extradited to France on terrorism charges

Hassan Diab lawyer to appeal Justice Minister’s ruling

By Chris Cobb, The Ottawa Citizen April 5, 2012 8:02 PM

Ottawa university professor Hassan Diab has been ordered extradited to France.
Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington , Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson’s decision to order Ottawa academic Hassan Diab extradited to France is a denial of basic legal and human rights, his lawyer said Thursday.

“This is a disappointing decision that politically I’m sure the minister found difficult to make in favour of Dr. Diab,” Donald Bayne told the Citizen. “It would have taken a great deal of political courage for him to do the right thing.”

Bureaucrat who was fired after CSIS tipoff loses his appeal

Stewart Bell

A senior federal bureaucrat who was stripped of his secret security clearance and his job after CSIS gave his employer “adverse information” about his loyalty to Canada has lost a grievance of his termination.

Nazih Nasrallah

Adjudicator Linda Gobeil of the Public Service Labour Relations Board ruled there was no evidence the decision to fire Nazih Nasrallah, a senior policy advisor at Human Resources Canada, was unreasonable.

While Mr. Nasrallah had argued his dismissal was influenced by allegations of his ties to terrorist organizations, the adjudicator concluded he had been properly fired for misappropriating government funds.

According to the tribunal decision, when Mr. Nasrallah returned from parental leave in August 2009 he was told his security clearance had been revoked on the basis of information received from the Canadian intelligence service.

Jonathan Kay: From Brampton to Bangladesh, anti-Hindu hate is all too real

Jonathan Kay

The last week has done much to educate me in the ethnic politics of South Asia. After writing this blog post criticizing those Canadian Sikh activists who expressed support for convicted terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana, I received an avalanche of hate mail. Many of the messages repeated the same words, and clearly were part of an organized mass-mailing campaign against me and CBC reporter Terry Milewski (who also has reported on Rajoana’s supporters) — similar to the Tamil mass-mailing campaigns that targeted me when I wrote negatively about the Tamil Tigers.

Still, two of my critics’ themes jumped out at me.

The first theme was that Rajoana is not really a terrorist — even though he has admitted to masterminding the 1995 bomb plot that killed the Chief Minister of Punjab, and 17 innocent bystanders. Instead, the Sikhs who emailed me insisted, he was a warrior, fighting back against the persecution of Sikhs by India and its local allies (including the Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh. who himself was Sikh). Many militant Sikh activists compared Rajoana to Nelson Mandela. Another common claim was that Beant Singh was a sort of South Asian Nazi. “If a Jew killed Hitler, would he be a terrorist?” one activist Tweeted to me.

I was shocked by how similar these messages were to the ones I received from radical Muslim activists who complain when National Post writers denounce Palestinian suicide bombings. The thesis is exactly the same: Don’t call so-and-so a terrorist — he’s a “martyr.”

Jonathan Kay is a Managing Editor of Canada’s National Post newspaper, a columnist on the newspaper’s op-ed page, and a regular blogger on the Post’s web site.

The Canadian Sikh Community Will Not Be Marginalized by Milewski and Kay
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Canada: The following was authored by a concerned Canadian Sikh academic, who wrote under the condition of anonymity, in rebuttal to Jonathan Kay’s piece, entitled “Why are some Canadian Sikhs expressing solidarity with an unrepentant terrorist?“

There are many questions surrounding the stay of execution of of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was sentenced for his involvement in the 1995 assassination of Beant Singh — the former chief minister of Punjab who spear headed the genocide against Sikhs in the region. But Rajoana’s sentence has since been stayed.