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Malik was arrested on March 9 following a six-month undercover investigation by the RCMP’s Ontario Integrated National Security Enforcement Team. He has not been charged with any crimes but is being held for deportation.

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At an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, the Canada Border Services Agency alleged Malik had made several trips abroad since arriving in Canada, most recently to Libya, where he claimed he had been teaching.

But he later told an undercover police officer who befriended him that he was a supporter of al Qaida and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and that he had received combat and weapons training in Libya, the CBSA said.

He also claimed to have had personal contact with Anwar Awlaki, the late al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula leader, and said he supported the terrorists who attacked a Paris satirical magazine. He showed the officer videos of the ISIL beheadings.

“Mr. Malik then began to recruit the undercover officer to assist him in making an explosive device that could be detonated remotely,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco said. “The plans … detailed which targets they may take out, including the American consulate in Toronto and other buildings in the financial district.”

The CBSA is alleging Malik is a security threat to Canada. If the IRB upholds the government’s case, the 33-year-old’s immigration status will be revoked and he will be returned to Pakistan. Until then, he is being detained in Lindsay, Ont.

His next detention hearing was scheduled for April 14. At two previous hearings, Malik did not bring forward any prospective bondspersons and appears to have no family in Canada other than his ex-wife and their two children.

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