(EXCERPT) Based in Montreal: U.S. wants French jurist to testify at trial of Ahmed Ressam

Stewart Bell National Post

A suspected Algerian terrorist arrested at the Canada-U.S. border last year with a trunkload of explosives belongs to a Montreal-based "radical Islamic fundamentalist" cell financed by Osama bin Laden, a French judge will testify at the man's upcoming trial.

U.S. prosecutors have filed notice with a Seattle court that they intend to call the judge as an expert witness at the trial of Ahmed Ressam, accused of building a powerful bomb in a Vancouver motel room that was meant to "punish America."

"The government intends to request that a French judge testify at trial as an expert on Islamic terrorist groups in Montreal, including a cell of which Ressam was a m...

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