Man with ties to al-Qaeda charged with threatening attack in Montreal

A man previously convicted of supporting al-Qaeda has been charged after allegedly threatening an attack in Montreal.

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, allegedly told an employee at a homeless shelter in Montreal that he wanted to build bombs to detonate on public transit.

He has been charged with uttering threats and appeared at the Montreal courthouse Thursday morning by videoconference.

The RCMP confirmed that the same man pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. He was deported to Canada in 2010 and had no fixed address at the time of the alleged incident.

The Old Mission Brewery, which runs several homeless shelters in Montreal, contacted Montreal police after Warsame allegedly said on May 27 that he wanted to carry out an attack that would kill a large number of people.

Read more: CBC News (Canada)