Canadian who attacked army recruiters charged with terrorism
Ottawa: A Canadian man who stabbed soldiers at a recruiting center in Toronto in March has been formally charged with terrorism, federal police said Tuesday.
Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27, faces attempted murder, assault and weapons charges "for the benefit of a terrorist group," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
These are in addition to related charges already brought by the Toronto police, it said.
Ali is alleged to have stabbed a soldier in the arm without provocation after entering a government building in mid-March. Police say he then sought to wound a second soldier before he was subdued.
The suspect was overheard saying at the scene of the attack, "Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to kill people," Toronto police chief Mark Saunders told reporters the next day.
No link to terrorism was made at that time.
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