Toronto terror suspects recorded video with weapons, ISIS flag
A father and son accused of planning a terrorist attack in Toronto had filmed a video of themselves holding weapons in front of the ISIS flag, sources told Global News.
The video of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 26, showed them with an axe and machete, according to three sources who spoke on the condition of not being identified.
It may explain why police have claimed the planned attack was in the “advanced stages.” Police seized both bladed weapons during the arrests on Sunday night.
RCMP tactical officers took the pair into custody at a hotel in Richmond Hill, Ont. as they were allegedly close to conducting a mass casualty attack at an unspecified target in Toronto.
They have been charged with six ISIS-related terrorism offences. Two of the charges accuse them of possessing an axe and machete for the benefit of ISIS.
One of the counts is for an aggravated assault the father allegedly committed for ISIS outside of Canada in 2015. The charge does not specify where, and the RCMP declined to elaborate.
But two sources said the elder Eldidi had allegedly appeared in a June 2015 ISIS propaganda video in which he was shown dismembering a prisoner with a sword.
A video obtained by Global News that appears to match the one that resulted in the aggravated assault charge shows a prisoner wearing an orange jumpsuit, suspended from a pole in a desert.
A man wearing a black robe, whose face is visible in the video, then hacks at the prisoner’s limbs with a sword. It is unclear whether the victim was already dead when he was dismembered.
The video was published in June 2015 by the pro-ISIS outfit Al-Raud Media.
At a news conference on Wednesday, police provided few details on the case, saying the investigation
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