Terror suspect Amanda Korody is captured on surveillance video saying she was playing a major supporting role to her husband and co-accused John Nuttall and wanted to kill as many people as possible in their planned terror attack.

The comments by Korody, who along with Nuttall has pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges, came in a conversation with an undercover cop several days before their alleged plot to detonate bombs at the legislature in Victoria.

Nuttall has already spoken to the cop, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban. Korody is asked by the cop how many people she wishes to kill, mutilate or destroy.

“As many as possible,” she calmly replies.

The cop asks her whether the death toll would include women and children and she replies that the message of Allah is not to target them, but the enemies of Islam were doing so and the Koran says “pretty much an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

“So we weren’t going to specifically target children and women the way they seem to be doing, but we weren’t going to avoid women and children.”

The cop, who is playing the role of a sympathizer of Islamic Jihad who has access to C4 plastic explosive they might use in the attack, asks whether Korody has been pressured into participating in any way.

“No, not at all, never,” replies Korody.

The accused also speaks to the officer of how she came to be a convert to Islam.

She said her parents were Christian but she didn’t believe in “some guy sitting on the clouds watching everything we do” and looked through some religions and got “kinda” stuck on witchcraft for a while.

Korody said she studied science at university and had ambitions to be a neuroscientist but those plans got derailed and she ended up homeless, living on the streets.

In Vancouver, she and Nuttall went into a store called Camouflage and she saw a book called “The Key to Understanding Islam.”

“And I asked him how much it was and he looked at me kind of funny because I was like a punk-rock chick, right. I was wearing a miniskirt, tank top, not very modest at all.”

In his conversation with the cop, Nuttall is heard struggling to explain his plans for the attack on the legislature during Canada Day 2013.

Nuttall tells the cop that the idea for the attack on Canada Day came from a second undercover cop who was posing as an Arab businessman.

“But I thought that was your idea,” the cop posing as the businessman says on the video.

“No, no, no, it was your idea,” says Nuttall, who is later lambasted by the cop posing as a businessman and told to tell the other cop what’s in his heart.

Nuttall approaches the other cop and pleads with him to help them in their jihad.

“I want to fight, my wife wants to fight,” says Nuttall. “We can fight and you can help us. Please help us.”

“I’m just not sure you’re really ready, you know,” says the cop.

“We’re ready,” says Nuttall.

The accused then says that the plan is to target 20,000 people on Canada Day.

“Twenty thousand of these disbelievers, all drunk, and hookers and drunks, and they’re all gonna be there,” says Nuttall. “You know, and I wanna strike terror into the hearts of the disbelievers like Allah commands, you know.”

The cop asks Nuttall how he can be sure that it’s not the businessman who has told him to say that.

“He didn’t tell me to say that,” says Nuttall. “I’m telling you from my heart.”

The trial resumes Monday.

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