Canadian Bomb Plotter Angered over Islam's Poor Media Image

MaxShimba · 2013-07-05T14:08:23+00:00

John Stewart Nuttall, 38, and Amanda Korody, 29, have been charged in a foiled bomb plot targeting Victoria revellers on Canada Day 2013 that police say was inspired by al-Qaida ideology. Photograph by: Composite image , * When Daryl Nelson called his close friend John Nuttall last Sunday to play paintball, he was disturbed by the evasive responses he got. Nuttall, now facing terrorism charges after a foiled bomb plot targeting the B.C. legislature, first claimed he was out of town in the Okanagan. Then he said he was in Victoria. And then he changed his mind again, purporting to be in Kelowna. "He kept switching his story and it was like more and more secretive," Nelson said in an interview. Twenty-four hours later, Nuttall and his common-law spouse Amanda Korody were in jail, accused of being inspired by al-Qaida and planting pressure cooker bombs to detonate during Victoria's Canada Day celebrations. It was particularly troubling for Nelson given that Nuttall had expressed outrage at the exact same terrorist tactic in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings in April. "He was saying it gives Muslims a bad name and all this other ----," Nelson said. "Then all of a sudden he goes and does something like this … Now what I am starting to think, he was just telling me that so I would never perceive him as that sort of threat." Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Surrey+couple+charged+with+terrorist+plot+against+legislature+Canada+with+exclusive+video/8605678/story.html#ixzz2YBEB9Tnd

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Start date Jul 5, 2013

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