The family, which would grow with the births in Canada of two more children, claimed to be Israeli, but Baroud acknowledged he had spent time in Fatah, saying that he had never been involved in any terrorism.
Counsel for the Ministers affirm in her written memorandum that "Like beauty, the image of a terrorist is, to some extent, in the eye of the beholder".
While I accept this statement in general terms, it cannot prevent this court from examining whether, in the circumstances of this case, there are reasonable grounds...Three years later, after he missed two immigration hearings which he claimed to have never received notice of,[5] an arrest warrant was issued and he was declared a threat to Canadian national security under the auspice that he had served in Fatah's Force 17 as a bodyguard to Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, and was stationed in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Greece and engaged in coordinating PLO terrorist acts.
[2][6][15][16] It was later revealed that his Canadian escorts had taken him to Casablanca hoping to leave him in Morocco; but while they were themselves "mistakenly left behind" in the North African country, Baroud had simply booked himself a plane back to Canada.
[20] Baroud later flew to Romania where he lived in the airport for a number of months before finding his way to Switzerland where he appealed to the Supreme Court for the right to remain.