A Lebanese-Canadian, Mohamed Hussein al-Husseini Arabic: محمد حسين الحسيني) was a member of Hezbollah who lived in Montreal, Quebec and informed authorities about a vast "support network" for the organisation that existed throughout Canada, before being returned to Lebanon in 1994.
[1] Born in Beirut, Al-Husseini came to Canada aboard Flight 414 at Mirabel Airport on August 6, 1991,[1][2] He claimed to have been arrested the previous year after his father had protested the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
After his release, he ostensibly hid in East Beirut before boarding a ship to Cyprus, and subsequently traveling to Italy before taking a train to Frankfurt, Germany and buying a flight ticket for Canada.
[2] On July 9, 1992 he was interrogated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at his shared apartment in Montreal, where he was living while collecting social assistance and studying French, and confronted with the fact a man had arrived at the airport with a Lebanese passport in al-Husseini's name.
After he returned, he made a September 17 call to CSIS asking why his application to become a landed immigrant was taking so long, and was told there were concerns he was connected to Hezbollah.