An Algerian terrorist suspect has been deported from Vancouver after spending more than four years in jail.
Samir Ait Mohamed was accused of being an associate of “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam.
Ressam was last year sentenced to 22 years in a U.S. jail for plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.
Mohamed was picked up in Vancouver in July 2001 as he tried to cross the border into the United States.
Canadian officials alleged Mohamed and Ressam planned to bomb the largely Jewish Montreal neighbourhood of Outremont.
In the years of working out a plea bargain, Ressam, originally from Algeria, provided information on al Qaeda training camps and networks to U.S. authorities.
Ressam said Mohamed had given him a gun, as well as a fake credit card to purchase parts to make the bomb to blow up the airport in L.A.
The United States tried to extradite Mohamed, but their case fell apart when Ressam backed out of a promise to testify against him. Extradition proceedings were dropped in August.
Mohamed tried to gain refugee status in Canada, saying he would be killed if he was sent home.
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