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Farah Shirdon left Canada on March 14, 2014. Just five days later, the Calgary extremist crossed into Syria at Tal Abiyad, where he signed up to be a jihadist fighter, according to leaked internal ISIL documents on hundreds of its members.

The forms recording the entry of six Canadians into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in late 2013 and early 2014 were provided to the National Post by the Syrian news site Zaman Al Wasl, which obtained them from an ISIL defector.

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The most striking thing they reveal is the ease with which the Canadians were able to travel across the world and join ISIL, despite being relatively uneducated young men inexperienced at terrorism. Some of them had never even travelled before.

And yet less than a month after his arrival in Syria, Shirdon was already the star of an ISIL video in which he burned his Canadian passport and told Canada and the U.S., “We are coming and we will destroy you, with permission from Allah the almighty.”