The federal government has refused to grant a Canadian passport to a 31-year-old Edmonton woman alleged to have once held a senior position in the militant group al-Shabaab. In affidavits filed in court, Jama denies the terrorism allegations. Al-Shabaab tiesThe case against Jama is laid out in a top-secret document from Public Safety Canada contained in court records. The agency points to a document found on Jama's laptop when she was arrested by police in Somaliland in 2011. "Jama's laptop contained a folder titled 'explosives' which included a document on how to build a plastic hydrogen bomb," the brief states.

Source: CBC News April 04, 2020 01:52 UTC