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In the days and months leading up to his robbery at knifepoint of a west-end dépanneur, a Montreal teenager now on trial for terrorism left a vast and telling online footprint that prosecutors believe revealed his true intentions.

A targeted sweep of the youth’s hard drive by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) yielded pages upon pages of photos, Tweets, Facebook updates, JustPaste.it articles and videos betraying an insatiable curiosity, if not sympathy, for ISIL.

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“Flames of War” — an extremely violent video produced by ISIL, vaunting suicide missions and showing captured Syrian soldiers digging their own graves then being shot in the back of the head — was searched repeatedly, including Oct. 10, the day before he robbed the convenience store.

Another jihadist video produced by ISIL in May — Salil al-Sawarim, “The clanging of the swords,” an equally horrific collection of battle footage and executions — also appeared several times on the teenager’s hard drive, youth court heard on Monday.