'Toronto 18' member gets 12 years

Mon Jan 18, 2010

CBC News

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Toronto 18 militant Saad Gaya was sentenced in a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Monday to 12 years in prison, minus 7½ years credit for pre-trial custody.

Gaya, 22, pleaded guilty in September to belonging to a terrorist group and intending to cause an explosion. He was among 18 men and youths rounded up in 2006 and charged in a plot to wreak havoc and bomb several targets.

The judge called Gaya a "helper" in the plot.

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