MUSLIM GUY BUSTED FOR CHILD PORN BY CSIS LOOKING FOR TERRORISM EVIDENCE

*** EXCELLENT job CSIS: in looking for an propagandist, you found an actual pervert instead - the latter is worth a lot more in my book. Hope this is not thrown out of court. Waiting for the CSIS-put-it-on-my-computer claim. MS **

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/867101--accused-in-child-porn-case-says-csis-forced-laptop-search

A Brampton Muslim leader charged with possessing child pornography says he was forced by CSIS agents, obsessed with the idea that he was a terror propagandist, into handing over his computer for a search.

“I said, ‘You don’t have permission to take it,” Ayad Mejid testified Monday.

“They said, ‘If we want we will get permission. We will go in your house in front of your neighbours and your children and we will take it,’ ” he told his lawyer, David Kolinsky.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service suspected the Iraqi-born Canadian citizen of being Abu Banan, an online Islamist propagandist preaching hatred against the West.

Mejid, a 47-year-old father of three, is charged with possessing, making and distributing child pornography.

He is challenging the October 2007 search of his computer by CSIS agents, which allegedly turned up images of young girls engaged in sex acts.

He is arguing that his rights against unreasonable search and seizure were infringed.

He has previously told the Star that he has no knowledge of any child pornography.

Mejid alleges in an affidavit that a CSIS agent pressured him to contact people of interest to the spy service and, when he refused, threatened to tell his wife that he was cheating on her and that he was interested in teenagers.

Crown prosecutor Michally Iny suggested that Mejid readily agreed to hand over the computer to clear his name of any terrorism suspicions.

“I was forced to give it to them,” he insisted.

A CSIS technician, whose identity cannot be reported, testified that he made a copy of the hard drive from Mejid’s laptop after it was brought to him by an agent to examine for evidence of terrorism links.

The technician, who testified on the other side of two screens to protect his identity, said that after subjecting the hard drive copy to analysis by forensic software, he stumbled upon child pornography videos.

They were stored under the user’s “My Documents” folder and readily available, the technician testified.

He said he looked at three of the videos.

“I saw a child actually performing oral sex on a man; another one had a little girl on a bed. She was naked at the time. And another one had a young girl having intercourse with a man.”

He said he made a second copy of the hard drive, which was given to Toronto police.

The trial without a jury, in front of Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly, continues Wednesday.