Fahim Ahmad - Life

Life

Fahim Ahmad was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to Aurangabad at age 10. He was attending Meadowvale Secondary School with fellow suspects Saad Khalid and Zakaria Amara. Friends suggest that he made statements supporting the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Ahmad was unemployed and reportedly handed out self-burned CDs of the as-Sahab video detailing the lives of the 9/11 hijackers at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto.

Ahmad had been under surveillance since 2002, when the 17-year old's internet usage demonstrated that he was in contact with "jihadists in Alberta."

In 2004, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) noticed that he had joined Clearguidance.com a year earlier, an "anti-Western" website on which he logged 754 posts.

Among his posts were statements like:

"Parents' anti-jihad/anti-'religiousness' talks are starting to effect come on bros, i need some jihad talks, anything! its like so dead my sources for videos is no more either, i know u guys can hook me up."

"Nowadays, for the most part, parents don't practice their much to begin with, and when a kid says, 'o mommy, daddy, i want to fight for ALLAH' automatically they say "NO! U WILL GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE A FUTURE."

When moderator Salmaan Ziauddin resigned from the website, CSIS approached him several times, asking about specific members of the website, including Ahmad and Zakaria Amara. Ahmad's wife, Mariya, was a student at the University of Toronto and went by the online moniker "Zawjatu Faheem"