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| Canadian bomb plotter convicted | Canadian bomb plotter convicted |
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| A Canadian software developer has been found guilty in a trial linked to a foiled fertiliser bomb plot in Britain. | |
| A judge in Ontario ruled Momin Khawaja was involved in a terrorist group and convicted him of five out of seven charges. He was tried without a jury. | |
| Khawaja, 29, was a co-conspirator of five men jailed for life in April 2007 for a UK bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda. | |
| Legal experts regarded the trial as a test of anti-terrorism legislation passed in Canada in 2001. | Legal experts regarded the trial as a test of anti-terrorism legislation passed in Canada in 2001. |
| Khawaja was arrested in March 2004 in a joint UK-Canadian operation and was accused of planning to attack the UK. | |
| The judge ruled on Wednesday that he had knowingly participated in the foiled plot against several British targets, including a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network. | |
| The court was earlier told he had been part of a plan to detonate a 600kg bomb which would have caused "massive" loss of life. | |
| Khawaja designed a remote bomb detonator which he called the "hi-fi digimonster", prosecutors said. | |
| He was also accused of attending a paramilitary training camp in Pakistan. | |
| He had denied all seven charges related to terrorism and explosives use. | |
| The new Canadian law gives the government wider powers to keep intelligence information secret on national security grounds and limits defendants' access to evidence used against them. |