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BRAMPTON, Ontario — The ringleader of a homegrown terrorism plot to set off truck bombs in front of Canada’s main stock exchange and two government buildings was given a life sentence Monday.
Zakaria Amara, 24, pleaded guilty in October. He acknowledged being a leader of the so- called Toronto 18 plot to detonate bombs outside Toronto’s Stock Exchange as well as a building housing Canada’s spy agency and a military base. The goal was to scare Canada into removing its troops from Afghanistan.
Amara, a Jordanian-born Canadian, received the nation’s first life sentence for a terrorism offense.
