Those were but boastful aspirations, bravado stories they told each other whilst training in the woods, like weekend paintball warriors. A husband and father, Ahmad was no impressionable recruit, no marginalized young man playing terrorism dress-up, all hat and no horse. In convicting him on three terrorism charges, delivering a 16-year sentence, Justice John Sproat cut to the quick of the thing. Distilled to its essence, the parole board viewed dimly — dubiously — Ahmad’s assertions that he’d changed his view about terrorism. But, number one, where a person shows they want to change and, number two, where they receive appropriate care and counseling.

Source: thestar June 04, 2017 22:03 UTC