The money quote:
The Grand Mère woman said Mr. Namouh used to be devout and pray. But more recently, he was no longer showing public signs of religious practice, she said."He goes on the Internet a lot," she said.
Too bad about those GIMF guys getting arrested, now isn't it... Someone care to explain to us how there is some sort of wall between "Internet Jihad" and "Jihad"? Because we don't see any such wall.
The rest of the story:
Bomb suspect's Quebec journey:
September 15, 2007 - GRAND MÈRE, QUE. and MONTREAL -- A Moroccan-born man arrested in Quebec in connection with a bomb plot had tried several times to immigrate to Canada but wasn't successful until he married a Canadian woman nearly 18 years older than him, an ex-girlfriend says.Posted on 25 September 2007 @ 10:55Saïd Namouh, 34, was detained this week on a conspiracy charge. The prosecution alleges that he plotted to detonate a car bomb in Austria, in concert with a pair of alleged al-Qaeda sympathizers in Vienna.
Mr. Namouh grew up in the coastal city of Kenitra in northern Morocco. He came to Quebec after marrying a waitress from Maskinongé, Que., who was visiting his country. She then sponsored his immigration application.
This came after Mr. Namouh had an Internet relationship with another small-town Quebec woman who tried in vain to get him a visa to Canada, said the woman, a resident of Grand Mère. Both Maskinongé and Grand Mère are in the Mauricie area, midway between Montreal and Quebec City.
For the past five years, Mr. Namouh has been in the Quebec hinterland, taking un-Muslim jobs such as washing trucks that transport pigs.
His life had gone through turmoil in recent months. He divorced the Maskinongé waitress, Carole Lessard, moved to nearby Trois-Rivières, but then couldn't renew his lease. He became jobless. He was charged with breaking into the home of the Grand Mère woman, with whom he has had an on-again-off-again relationship.
His family in Morocco wasn't informed of those upheavals, however.
"He said he found joy there," one brother said by phone from Morocco. "It's not fair," he said of Mr. Namouh's arrest.
He confirmed that Mr. Namouh has a child in Morocco but wouldn't comment further.
The Grand Mère woman said Mr. Namouh used to be devout and pray. But more recently, he was no longer showing public signs of religious practice, she said.
"He goes on the Internet a lot," she said. Austrian authorities say Mr. Namouh had online communications with three Viennese Muslims who were arrested this week.
