Two would-be jihadis found guilty in a plot that would have blown up a passenger train as it crossed the Niagara Gorge will get a new trial all based on what amounts to a technicality.
Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were convicted in 2015 of plotting to use explosives to destroy the train bridge linking Ontario and New York State near the Niagara Whirpool. Their hope was to see the Maple Leaf, the daily service between Toronto and New York City, plunge off the bridge, taking passengers into the rapids below.
Now in a ruling from Ontario’s Court of Appeal, a new trial has been ordered citing problems with how the jury was selected.
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