B.C. man’s Facebook page supported terror attacks in West: trial hears
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man allegedly used his Facebook account to express support of “lone wolves” who committed violent terror attacks in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, his trial heard on Friday.
Othman Hamdan of Fort St. John has pleaded not guilty to encouraging the commission of murder, assault and mischief, all for terrorist purposes, as well as inducing and instructing someone to carry out a terrorist act.
Eighty-five posts on Hamdan’s Facebook page are being scrutinized in B.C. Supreme Court by the Crown’s expert witness, RCMP Const. Tarek Mokdad, who has extensively studied the online activity of so-called lone wolves, those who carry out attacks on their own.
“Lone wolves, we salute you,” read one post on March 3, 2015, as read aloud by Crown counsel Lesley Ann Kilgore.