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TORONTO — A Tunisian arrested by the RCMP last year over an alleged plot to derail a passenger train near Toronto spent six weeks training with a man “in direct contact” with the leader of Al-Qaeda, according to a newly released FBI document.

The summary of FBI wiretaps spelled out for the first time the suspected link between the Canadian terrorism plot and Al-Qaeda. Previously the RCMP had said only that the conspiracy had received “direction and guidance” from Al-Qaeda elements in Iran.

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But in the document, an undercover FBI officer said one of the suspects, Chiheb Esseghaier, had trained and lived with a man known as Al-Masul. While Al-Masul was not otherwise identified, the officer said he “was in direct contact with the Doctor.”

The Doctor is one of the aliases used by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist who became the leader of Al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs. The document referred to him as “Anwar Al-Zawahiri.”