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Que. woman charged with terrorism for allegedly exporting gun parts: RCMP
By Giuseppe Valiante ,QMI Agency
RCMP (QMI Agency/handout) MONTREAL - A Quebec woman was charged Friday with aiding what the Canadian government considers a terrorist group by allegedly trying to smuggle gun parts to Lebanon in 2011.
The RCMP told QMI Agency that Mouna Diab, 26, was allegedly working with a contact in Lebanon associated with Hezbollah, a political party and militant group that is on Canada's official list of terrorist organizations.
Diab used to be an activist and travelled to small-town Quebec in 2007 to try to dispel negative stereotypes about Muslims.
She was originally arrested in May 2011 at Montreal's main airport. Police said she was caught on her way to Lebanon with parts of AR-15 semi-automatic rifles in her luggage.
She was charged in 2011 with contravening Section 3 of Canada's Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolution on Lebanon: "No person in Canada and Canadian outside Canada shall knowingly export, sell, supply or ship directly or indirectly, arms and related material, wherever situated, to any person in Lebanon."
She was released on $15,000 bail to her Laval home, just north of Montreal, pending trial.
However, police said they didn't know at the time that she had alleged ties to Hezbollah.
RCMP Cpl. Carine Cordey said police received information about a possible link between Diab and Hezbollah, which led police to re-arrest Diab and charge her with committing an offence for a terrorist group. She appeared in court Friday morning.
The RCMP, Quebec's provincial police and Montreal police started an investigation in February 2011 into the purchase of AR-15-type firearm parts in the Montreal area.
The RCMP alleged that Diab recruited members of Montreal's Lebanese community to unknowingly transport gun parts in their luggage to Lebanon.
QMI Agency reached Diab by phone Friday afternoon. She directed all calls to her lawyer, Pacal Lescarbeau. She wouldn't say if she will plead guilty or not guilty to the charges.
"I have absolutely nothing to say about any of this," she said. "You'll have to speak with my lawyer."
Lescarbeau didn't want to comment either and wouldn't say how his client would plead.
Cordey said she didn't know how many people Diab used to export gun parts, nor if any of them will be charged. However, considering police don't believe the people knew they were allegedly transporting weapon parts, Cordey said that charges against them were unlikely.
Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews released a statement Friday that said: "Canadians can rest assured that terrorism and those who support terrorist activity has not and will not undermine our way of life."
--with files from Kinia Adamczyk
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