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CANADIAN GETS LIFE FOR TERROR THREATS

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MONTREAL - A Moroccan man was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for plotting attacks in Germany and Austria and touting terrorism online from his basement apartment in a Quebec village, said media.

Said Namouh, 37, was convicted in October of four charges under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act, including conspiring to detonate a bomb, facilitating terrorism, participating in a terrorist group and extorting a foreign government on its behalf.

Namouh was arrested in September 2007 for engaging in more than 1,000 online conversations and producing videos praising violent attacks on US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as helping distribute ransom demands for kidnappers of a British journalist in Gaza.

In online postings, he also touted his explosives expertise and threatened future attacks in Germany and Austria unless their troops withdrew from Afghanistan.

Namouh, who moved to Canada in 2003, may be eligible for parole after 10 years. Ottawa has said it would seek to deport him after his release from prison. AFP

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