Saad Khalid was born on August 12,1986 and was one of 17 people detained and arrested on June 2 and June 3,2006, in the Greater Toronto Area in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests.
19 Facts About Saad Khalid
1.
2.
Saad Khalid was involved with a group of people suspected in the planning of coordinated bombing attacks against targets in southern Ontario.
3.
Saad Khalid was the first to plead guilty to intent to cause an explosion, while seven others were acquitted and five others, including a juvenile, were convicted.
4.
Saad Khalid moved to Canada with his parents from Pakistan at the age of 8.
5.
Saad Khalid played in the Erin Mills Soccer Club league.
6.
Saad Khalid graduated from Meadowvale Secondary School, where he had started an Islamic Club and led Friday prayers in the lecture hall, which he attended with fellow arrestees Fahim Ahmad and Zakaria Amara.
7.
Saad Khalid was known among students for lecturing others not to take illegal drugs, or get in fights.
8.
Saad Khalid enrolled and was accepted to University of Toronto in Mississauga.
9.
Saad Khalid attended the training camp with many of the other arrestees and had used a video camera in the downtown area for reconnaissance.
10.
Saad Khalid rented the warehouse space for the ammonium nitrate where he and Saad Gaya were later arrested.
11.
Saad Khalid was arrested in a warehouse alongside one of the five who cannot be named.
12.
Saad Khalid had told his parents he was attending a job fair.
13.
Saad Khalid was denied bail on July 17,2006, and has since been in solitary confinement.
14.
On September 3,2009, Saad Khalid was sentenced to 14 years in prison with credit of 7 years for time already served.
15.
Saad Khalid is eligible for parole after serving a third of his sentence since 2009.
16.
Saad Khalid has spent time in counselling with an imam during his time in prison.
17.
Saad Khalid provided me with material that argued against the legality of terrorism.
18.
Saad Khalid has apologized to Canadian Muslims and Canadians in general for what he did.
19.
Saad Khalid insists that he did not hate Canada, Canadians or non-Muslims and that he was against Canadian foreign policy specifically in Afghanistan.