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Extradition hearing underway for Edmonton man facing terrorism charges
Original Publication Date: September 24, 2012 6:10AM
Publication Updated: January 9, 2025 4:45AM
EDMONTON – An Edmonton man is facing a hearing to determine if he should be extradited to the United States on terrorism charges.
Sayfildin Tahir Sharif (SAY’-fill-din TA’-here SHAW’-reef) is accused of supporting a terrorist group that took part in a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2009 that killed five American soldiers.
The hearing is focusing on the admissibility of evidence from RCMP officers who arrest Sharif in January 2011 at the request of the FBI.
The U.S. charges include conspiring to kill Americans aboard.
Sharif, an ethnic Kurd, was born in Iraq but moved to Toronto as a refugee in 1993 and became a Canadian citizen in 1997.
The FBI says he has also gone by several other names.
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