Muhammad Shareef Abdelhaleem was born on 1976 and is a database engineer and one of 17 people initially arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests.
15 Facts About Shareef Abdelhaleem
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Shareef Abdelhaleem is alleged to have plotted coordinated bombing attacks against targets in southern Ontario.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem's father, Tariq Abdelhaleem, is an engineer on contract with Atomic Energy of Canada, and is well known for his own writings as an Imam, including a fatwa against watering down the message of Islam.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem was interviewed prior to his son's arrests, denouncing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem was a 30-year-old computer programmer at the time of his arrest, and drove a metallic blue BMW convertible.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem underwent open-heart surgery just two months before the arrest.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem was by far the wealthiest of the group and had sought information on offshore bank accounts.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem's father has visited Abdelhaleem every Saturday morning for three years, but lied to his youngest daughter and explains her older brother is in a "hospital" and behind plexiglass for all visits because he's contagious.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem is alleged to have been introduced to fertilizer purchasing by Zakaria Amara.
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Amara gave Shareef Abdelhaleem money; Shareef Abdelhaleem then gave C$2,000 to Shaher Elsohemy, who was a former friend and current police mole.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem's lawyer has stated that the accusations against his client were due to an old friend seeking revenge through his connections to the police.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem had contributed various suggestions about the plan such as spreading out the timing of the attack to increase the terror factor.
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On January 21,2010, Shareef Abdelhaleem was found guilty of plotting to bomb financial, intelligence and military targets.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem was not convicted however as the defense was awarded a stay of proceedings in order to look into whether or not the case could be considered as entrapment.
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Shareef Abdelhaleem was released to a Montreal halfway house on day parole in January, 2021, after spending 14 years in a Quebec prison and receiving de-radicalization counselling.