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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Two 18-year-old youths, Bilel Zouaida of St. Fran\u00e7ois, and Shayma Senouci of Ste. Rose, as well as an unidentified third young Laval woman are reportedly among six teenagers who have left Canada, Jan. 16, to join Middle East militants. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe did have a missing person report about a Laval resident that was filed in Montreal, Jan. 18, but we soon realized that the person was not missing at all,\u201d said Laval Police Sgt. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jean, who declined to confirm the youths\u2019 identities. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not releasing their names,\u201d he told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. \u201cWe know where they\u2019ve been. They\u2019re adults and can go wherever they want on the globe.\u201d <\/p>\n

The sextet allegedly made their way to Syria via Turkey after they decamped. <\/p>\n

Several were enrolled at Coll\u00e8ge de Maisonneuve, where they reportedly studied under the leadership of Islamic activist Adil Charkoui, who leased space at the CEGEP. <\/p>\n

After convicted millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam accused the Moroccan-born Charkoui of being an Al Qaeda sleeper agent, Canadian authorities kept Charkoui in custody for two years, until he was released on bail in 2005. In 2009, a court overturned his arrest. <\/p>\n

During a news conference, Feb. 27, Charkoui told reporters that he had nothing to do with radicalizing the students, and reproached the college for having cancelled his lease there. <\/p>\n

Laval-Levant axis<\/b><\/p>\n

\n
<\/b>Laval has a significant Middle Eastern community that maintains tight ties with its homeland. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey keep a close watch on what happens in Syria,\u201d a senior police official told The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cThey\u2019re quite concerned.\u201d <\/p>\n

Until the recent spate of young Canadians defecting to serve the nascent Islamist state, federal, provincial and local law enforcement officials had concentrated on keeping a close eye on the flow of funds from criminal activity that was finding its way to fill Middle East extremist coffers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes different forms,\u201d the official said in an interview. \u201cThey include proceeds from drug trafficking, smuggling, car theft, and fraud.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cExtortion is still big here,\u201d the official added, explaining that the local thugs routinely prey upon their own countrymen. \u201cMany crimes are not reported to us, as a consequence. People don\u2019t come forward. Even when we find out, they don\u2019t want to lodge a complaint and it\u2019s hard to work with them, because they are concerned for their safety. If they don\u2019t come forward, there\u2019s nothing that we can do.\u201d <\/p>\n

News outlets scoffed in the late 1990s, after Montreal Police intelligence officials first identified publicly this new phenomenon, which they dubbed gangsterrorisme.<\/i><\/p>\n

They reported that they were starting to see criminals who were more than mere petty lawbreakers\u2014but not quite full-blown professional terrorists. <\/p>\n

Months later, their Cassandra-like warning was vindicated, after United States border officials intercepted Ressam, Dec. 14, 1999, when he attempted to drive across the border carrying explosives that he had intended to use to blow up Los Angeles International Airport.<\/p>\n

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\nShayma Senouci<\/b><\/div>\n

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