Mohamed Harkat (Arabic: محمد حركات) (born August 6, 1968, Algeria) is a native-born Algerian and permanent resident of Canada who was arrested in 2002 and was imprisoned under security certificates after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) concluded that he entered the country as a sleeper agent for al-Qaeda.

[4] As a student at the University of Oran, Harkat joined the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) in 1989, when it was still a legitimate political movement.

[1] Harkat was excused from Algerian military service because he broke his left leg as a child and it never properly healed.

[7] From there he travelled to Pakistan, where the Muslim World League employed him and sent him to Peshawar in May 1990, to help distribute relief packages and organise aid programs.

He picked up shipments of food and relief supplies for the refugee camps in the city from the Peshawar airport and train station, earning $300–500 monthly.

They suggest that this meant he was a formal colleague of Ahmed Khadr, and that he may have run a guest house for foreign mujahideen traveling to participate in the Afghan civil war.

[14] The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) alleges that Harkat and "Mohammad Adnani" were the same person, and that during this time, he joined the more militant Groupe Islamique Armé wing of FIS.

[1] In September 1995, Harkat paid $5000 for airfare to travel from Pakistan to Malaysia, from where he hoped to catch a direct flight to Canada.

[25] For the past decade, Harkat has been living and working in Ottawa - he's now a church janitor - while fighting his extradition in court.

[3] Harkat married Canadian citizen Sophie Lamarche, who he met at the gas station he worked at, in January 2001.

[27] On March 22, 2005, Federal Court judge Eleanor Dawson ruled that the security certificate binding Harkat was reasonable.

[2] In April 2006, he was moved, along with the other four detainees, to a section at the Millhaven Institution specifically built for those held under security certificates.

They cited a breach of bail conditions, since his mother-in-law had not stayed at the house for several days following an argument with her husband.

On September 24, 2008, judge Simon Noël ruled that CSIS must disclose their "secret" evidence against Harkat, allowing him and his lawyers to view the material.

[14] Six months later, Judge Noël ordered the release conditions be loosened, allowing Harkat to remain home alone without requiring his wife to be present at all times.

[25] In May 2009, judge Noël had said that the unwillingness of CSIS to share its material regarding the reliability of an informant who gave evidence against Harkat was "troubling."

[10] In December 2010, Federal Court Judge Simon Noël deemed Harkat a member of the terrorist network and linked him to several Islamic extremists, including Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, Saudi-born Ibn Khattab and Abu Zubaydah.

[34][35] In doing so, it upheld the government's security certificate and reinstated Noël's decision that found Harkat to be an active member of the al-Qaida network.

[38] A decision was then reached in his case on October 2, 2018 in which the Minister’s delegate determined that Mr. Harkat should not be allowed to remain in Canada based on the nature and severity of the acts he committed.

[39] Harkat's lawyer, Barbara Jackman, told Al Jazeera she filed for a judicial review of his deportation order in November 2018.

[43] As of 2023, the Federal Court was continuing to order that Bell Mobility provide records of Mr. Harkat's telephone calls and SMS text messages to CBSA.