He was involved with a group of people suspected in the planning of coordinated bombing attacks against targets in southern Ontario.
He graduated from Meadowvale Secondary School, where he had started an Islamic Club and led Friday prayers in the lecture hall, which he attended with fellow arrestees Fahim Ahmad and Zakaria Amara.
Khalid attended the training camp with many of the other arrestees and had used a video camera in the downtown area for reconnaissance.
[1][2] Lawyers for the other accused members still pending trial sought to have a publication ban prohibit all mention in the media of the guilty plea, but were largely unsuccessful.
[7] According to a CBC News report detailing a series of exclusive letters CBC News exchanged with Khalid, at some point in his first term at University of Toronto he discovered a series of online lectures by American-born al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011).
"He had a knack for telling a good story, so when I came across his lectures on jihad, I was hooked" Khalid writes.
"Here was someone I respected and he was connecting global grievances that Muslims share with what your responsibility is in terms of these issues."