Accused terror suspect wanted to build a bomb big enough to destroy a tank, trial hears
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An accused terror suspect told an
undercover RCMP officer that he wanted to build a pipe bomb with enough
explosive power to blow up a tank, a trial heard Tuesday.
The conversation was secretly video recorded and played for a B.C. Supreme Court jury hearing the Crown’s case against John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, who are accused of four terrorism related offences.
The seven-hour video being played at the Vancouver trial showed Nuttall buying a “Big Boss” pressure cooker at a Surrey Walmart on June 26, 2013.
Later during the video, Nuttall goes to a hardware store to buy nails and other items, which the Crown alleges we’re going to be used to inflict injury to people when the pressure cooker bomb exploded.
“We’ve got enough to make three bombs,” Nuttall said excitedly when he gets back in the vehicle, where the undercover officer and Korody had been waiting.
“We need five nails and another clock. And Christmas lights,” Nuttall said on the videotape. “I just need one bulb and a little piece of wire from the Christmas lights.”
Minutes later on the video, Nuttall said: “We’re going to die for Islam.”
The Crown contends that Nuttall and Korody conspired to use the pressure cooker as a bomb to be planted outside B.C.’s legislature on July 1, 2013 — a jihadist plan in the name of radical Islam.
The Crown has alleged the accused wanted to do as much damage – and kill as many people as possible – during the Canada Day celebrations in Victoria.
The undercover RCMP officer, who cannot be identified because of a court-ordered ban on his identity, was posing as an Arab businessman who was trying to help the young couple carry out their plot.
The officer testified Tuesday he grew up speaking Arabic and occasionally spoke Arabic to Nuttall and Korody because they wanted to learn the language.
The jury has heard how Nuttall and Korody were previously heroin addicts but were taking methadone at the time of the four-month police undercover operation, which began in March 2013.
At one point during the video played Tuesday, the couple discuss needing to get several days supply of methadone so they can carry out with their bombing plot.
The court was told earlier that after the pressure cooker bomb was built, police replaced most of the plastic explosives to prevent the bomb from exploding. The couple were arrested at the end of the investigation.
The videotape will continue being played Wednesday at the trial.
The conversation was secretly video recorded and played for a B.C. Supreme Court jury hearing the Crown’s case against John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, who are accused of four terrorism related offences.
The seven-hour video being played at the Vancouver trial showed Nuttall buying a “Big Boss” pressure cooker at a Surrey Walmart on June 26, 2013.
Later during the video, Nuttall goes to a hardware store to buy nails and other items, which the Crown alleges we’re going to be used to inflict injury to people when the pressure cooker bomb exploded.
“We’ve got enough to make three bombs,” Nuttall said excitedly when he gets back in the vehicle, where the undercover officer and Korody had been waiting.
“We need five nails and another clock. And Christmas lights,” Nuttall said on the videotape. “I just need one bulb and a little piece of wire from the Christmas lights.”
Minutes later on the video, Nuttall said: “We’re going to die for Islam.”
The Crown contends that Nuttall and Korody conspired to use the pressure cooker as a bomb to be planted outside B.C.’s legislature on July 1, 2013 — a jihadist plan in the name of radical Islam.
The Crown has alleged the accused wanted to do as much damage – and kill as many people as possible – during the Canada Day celebrations in Victoria.
The undercover RCMP officer, who cannot be identified because of a court-ordered ban on his identity, was posing as an Arab businessman who was trying to help the young couple carry out their plot.
The officer testified Tuesday he grew up speaking Arabic and occasionally spoke Arabic to Nuttall and Korody because they wanted to learn the language.
The jury has heard how Nuttall and Korody were previously heroin addicts but were taking methadone at the time of the four-month police undercover operation, which began in March 2013.
At one point during the video played Tuesday, the couple discuss needing to get several days supply of methadone so they can carry out with their bombing plot.
The court was told earlier that after the pressure cooker bomb was built, police replaced most of the plastic explosives to prevent the bomb from exploding. The couple were arrested at the end of the investigation.
The videotape will continue being played Wednesday at the trial.
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