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MARCH 30, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 38
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Kamloops man deported, brother a suspected terrorist KIM BOLAN
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DIGGING IN FOR ANOTHER WILDFIRE SEASON
Lucas Leslie (left) is among 14 students taking part in an eight-day training camp in Kamloops, organized by HIS Wildfire F.S. Inc. The training, which took the crew to surrounding areas of Kamloops — including the beach at Pioneer Park — wraps up today before they are sent to Alberta to prepare for wildfire season.
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A Kamloops man was deported to his native Pakistan earlier this month for failing to tell Canadian officials that his brother was an alleged international terrorist charged in an Islamabad hotel bombing. Aitizaz Ud Din Syed, 29, originally came to B.C. in 2013 on a student visa, but had been working at a tech company in Kamloops during the last year. He was arrested in January by the Canada Border Services Agency for misrepresenting information on his visa application almost four years earlier. Syed’s older brother, Ibrar Ud Din Syed, was the alleged mastermind of the September 2008
Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad that left 55 dead and hundreds wounded. Al-Qaeda was believed to be behind the deadly attack. There is currently an Interpol warrant for Ibrar Syed’s arrest, although his younger sibling told the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) recently that his brother likely died in an air raid about two years after the hotel bombing. Syed also told the IRB that he didn’t realize he had to list a dead sibling on his visa application, but admitted he later learned he should have done so and didn’t notify authorities at that time. CBSA official Jeffrey Wicharuk told IRB member Trent Cook during a Jan. 6 hearing
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that the agency had learned of “derogatory information” about Syed from the RCMP and CSIS that might make him inadmissible to Canada on security grounds. Wicharuk asked for more time to get the information, which had to be declassified or redacted. Lawyer Antya Schrack said the younger Syed “has never been associated with any terrorist organization. “He’s not been a member of any political party . . . has never been politically involved. He did not know the name of the organization his brother is supposed to have belonged to and heard of it the first time when I showed it to him,” Schrack told Cook. See KAMLOOPS, A2
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