Man arrested at Pearson for alleged terror-related offences in court Friday

A man arrested at Pearson airport on terrorism-related charges will appear in a Brampton court on Friday for a bail hearing.

Mohamed Hersi, 25, is charged with attempting to participate in terrorist activity and with providing counsel to a person to participate in terrorist activity.

He was arrested Tuesday night just as he was about to board a plane to Cairo, Egypt. The RCMP claim he was eventually destined for Somalia where he allegedly planned to join a well-known terror group suspected of recruiting young Canadians.

The group, Al Shabaab, which means “the youth” in Arabic, is a radical Islamic organization that controls a large swath of southern Somalia and is trying to overthrow the country’s transitional government. The Canadian government officially listed Al Shabaab as a terrorist organization in March 2010 due to its youth recruitment efforts. It practices a conservative brand of Islam similar to the Taliban and has been linked to al-Qaida.

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