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- 1 2 Third Montrealer on detainee list at Guantanamo, The Globe and Mail , March 10, 2006
- 1 2 The Charkaoui Case, Communist Party of Canada, Marxist-Leninist
- ↑ Amnesty International, Raouf Hannachi: un citoyen canadien emprisonné en Tunisie depuis plus de 2 ans et 4 mois Archived 2008-04-05 at the Wayback Machine , January 2006
- ↑ "Government's Sentencing Memorandum; U.S. v. Ressam" (PDF). April 20, 2005. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
- 1 2 Sageman, Marc (2004). Understanding Terror Networks. University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
- ↑ "The Terrorist Within, Chapter 7: Joining Jihad", The Seattle Times, June 27, 2002, March 1, 2010
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- ↑ Pither, Kerry. "Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror", 2008.
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