Pakistani-Canadian Imprisoned Over Plot to Decapitate Employees of Jyllands-Posten and Throw their Heads in the Street May Have Canadian Citizenship Revoked

I think that’s a good idea. National Post:

A Pakistani-Canadian imprisoned in California over a plot to decapitate employees of a Danish newspaper and throw their heads on to the street is among those targeted for revocation of their citizenship under a controversial new law, the National Post has learned.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 54, is the only one of the 10 Canadians whose citizenship the government is seeking to revoke for terrorism who was convicted by a foreign court, the U.S. District Court in Chicago. He is serving a 14-year-sentence at a prison in San Pedro, Calif.

The former owner of First World Immigration, which operated in Toronto, Rana was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy in relation to a plot to attack the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten newspaper for publishing a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

He was also convicted of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistani terrorist group that 10 sent gunmen to Mumbai, India in 2008 to attack major hotels, a train statin and a Jewish centre. More than 160 people were killed.

Rana was living in Illinois when he was arrested in 2009. According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, his scheduled release date is Dec. 28, 2021. Upon completion of his sentence, he would have likely been deported to Canada. But if his citizenship is successfully revoked, he could only be returned to Pakistan.

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  1. Good. Only problem – if Pakistan won’t accept him the US could be stuck with him. Perhaps an agreement can be reached with Canada to accept him only long enough to take him from a plane arriving from the US to one departing for Lahore.

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