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Interpol issues warrant for Ont. man
08/11/2010 6:51:46 PM
CBC News
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Interpol has issued a warrant at the OPP's request for an Ontario man wanted on charges of advocating or promoting genocide.
Salman An-noor Hossain, a former student at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, was charged July 8 with two counts of advocating genocide and three counts of promoting hatred.
Police allege that Hossain, 25, who escaped and is now overseas, ran a website that called for the mass execution of Canadian Jews. The site accused Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, of creating terrorist groups, such as the Toronto 18, in order to discredit Muslims.
Hossain is also alleged to have blogged that "he would cheer the death of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan."
It was lobby groups such as Bernie Farber's Canadian Jewish Congress that first alerted police to Hossain's activities.
"This is a guy that is very committed to what he wants to do. Very committed to his hatred of Jews," Farber said.
According to Farber, Hossain escaped police by jumping out a side window of his residence as officers were knocking on his door. But Farber is convinced the Interpol warrant issued Monday will result in an arrest.
"When Interpol sends out a warrant like this it means it's of interest to every police force in the world. So he is a marked man."
Police believe Hossain is hiding in Uganda or his native Bangladesh.
Canada doesn't have an extradition treaty with either country, but a spokesman for the OPP said if Hossain is caught the federal government can use other diplomatic avenues to have him returned.
With files from CBC's Bill Gillespie