Shareef Abdelhaleem

Shareef Abdelhaleem
Born	1976 Egypt
Occupation	Computer programmer
Criminal charge	2006 Toronto terrorism arrests
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment
Criminal status	Incarcerated
Parent(s)	Tariq Abdelhaleem (father)
Conviction(s)	found guilty

A database engineer,Muhammad Shareef Abdelhaleem is one of 17 people initially arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He is alleged to have plotted coordinated bombing attacks against targets in southern Ontario.

"I am the last person to be a threat...this whole thing was staged to impress the public, to give them fear."

Born in Egypt as the oldest of four siblings, Abdelhaleem lived in Egypt, Jordan and England as a child, and moved to Canada with his parents in 1989 at the age of 10.

His father, Tariq Abdelhaleem, is an engineer on contract with Atomic Energy of Canada, and is well known for his own writings as an Imam, including a fatwa against watering down the message of Islam. He was interviewed prior to his son's arrests, denouncing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tariq was among those who posted bail for security certificate detainee Mohammad Mahjoub earlier in the year. At Abdelhaleem’s trial it was revealed that his father had issued a fatwa for the group declaring the attacks “acceptable”.

Abdelhaleem was a 30-year-old computer programmer at the time of his arrest, and drove a metallic blue BMW convertible. He underwent open-heart surgery just two months before the arrest. He was by far the wealthiest of the group and had sought information on offshore bank accounts.

His father has visited Abdelhaleem every Saturday morning for three years, but lies to his youngest daughter and explains her older brother is in a "hospital" and behind plexiglass for all visits because he's contagious.

He is alleged to have been brought into the fertilizer purchasing by Zakaria Amara,

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