By Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, who was connected with 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden, was arrested in Montreal and appeared by video in court accused of uttering threats that could cause death or bodily harm.

A judge ordered the accused to undergo 30 days of psychiatric examination at the Philippe-Pinel hospital to determine the extent of his criminal responsibility.

Warsame, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, had been convicted in the United States in 2009, sentenced to 92 months in jail and then accepted back into Canada. According to the RCMP- Eastern Region, the accused “allegedly told a worker at the Old Brewery Mission that he intended to commit an attack with the goal of killing a large number of people.

“Montreal Police Service (SPVM) officers responded quickly to the report. The SPVM immediately informed the RCMP of this incident, after which the investigation was taken over by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.”

According to the United States Department of Justice, Warsame was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 92 months in jail and three years of supervised release in federal court in 2009 for “conspiring to provide material support and resources to al-Qaeda.”

Warsame had met Bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks. According to various sources, Warsame emigrated to Canada in 1989 and married an American woman from Minnesota in an arranged marriage, during which he still lived in Toronto and visited her periodically. He then went to Afghanistan in 2000, attracted by what he considered to be a utopian society. n