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So naturally, they thought it was a good idea to allow him to be college bound on his own?

Mohawk College wouldn’t say whether Ali has registered there.

“We won’t comment on any student’s applicant status as all students have a right to privacy,” said spokesman Sean Coffey. But he added that any application would be evaluated “under a lens of safety” and “safety is paramount.”

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Ali had never even expressed an interest in attending school, the Crown argued, and the plan to accelerate him from lockdown with zero privileges to walking around campus alone within the year was beyond ambitious, let alone unsafe.

The Crown called it “particularly alarming,” considering Ali’s “ongoing delusions and fixation (with Canadian forces and his belief that attacking them is justified), particularly in the context of the aggressive and difficult to subdue nature of the attack/index offences (with many trained military personnel having great difficulty in disarming and subduing him), his prior interest in achieving martyrdom and the board’s own recognition of a need for secure detention to address the significant threat and level of risk posed by the Respondent.”

Prosecutors are also asking the appeal court to add a condition that Ali not have any contact with uniformed military members — the people “most at risk” if he’s in the community; yet, a request the ORB had refused to impose.

Ali’s lawyers, Nader Hasan and Maureen Addie, insist the disposition should stand as is and the appeal court shouldn’t “second guess” the ORB.

“The conditions do not give unrestrained liberty to Mr. Ali. To the contrary, they envision an incremental process,” they argue in their factum.

“The Crown incorrectly states that Mr. Ali believes that it is OK to attack Canadian soldiers or military installations. He does not.”

The appeal is scheduled to be heard Feb. 15.

mmandel@postmedia.com