[3] Ahmad was unemployed[2] and reportedly handed out self-burned CDs of the as-Sahab video detailing the lives of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto.
"[6][7] In 2004, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) noticed that he had joined Clearguidance.com a year earlier,[8] an "anti-Western" website on which he logged 754 posts.
""Nowadays, for the most part, parents don't practice their [religion] much to begin with, and when a kid says, 'o mommy, daddy, i want to fight for ALLAH' automatically they say "NO!
His original "second in command" was Zakaria Amara; however he apparently grew disenchanted with Ahmad’s lack of action and broke away.
[2] In March 2005, Americans Ehsanul Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed traveled to Toronto together aboard a Greyhound bus, to meet with Ahmad, Jahmaal James and another youth,[11] whom they had spoken to online about their mutual interpretations of Islam and jihad.
[5] While the group discussed hypothetical scenarios in which North America was attacked, the government noted there was "no imminent danger".
Police agent Mubin Shaikh testified as to the extremist content of the camps and Ahmad's intent and leadership.