Guilty verdicts for Palestinian, Tunisian suspects in train terror plot
Two men accused of plotting to attack a Via Rail passenger train travelling from New York to Toronto were found guilty Friday of terror-related charges. Raed Jaser, a Canadian citizen of Palestinian descent, and Chiheb Esseghaier, who is of Tunisian descent, were arrested in 2013. Jaser faced four terror-related charges while Esseghaier faced five. They had pleaded not guilty.
On Friday, the 10th day of deliberations, a Toronto jury found Esseghaier guilty on all five terrorism charges against him. But the jury was deadlocked on one of the four charges that Jaser was facing. Judge Michael Code told jurors on Friday that he has the power to accept their unanimous decisions on the eight other charges.
