In 1991, Canadian authorities arrested five men of Trinidadian

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 and Dominican

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 ethnicity, and accused them of ties to Jamaat ul-Fuqra and plotting to bomb a Hindu

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 temple and Indian theatre in the Greater Toronto Area

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.

Arrests

Four of the men tried to cross the Peace Bridge

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 into the United States in October 1991. Customs

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 officials searched their Buick

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 and Chevrolet Suburban

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Chevrolet offered a station wagon body, built on the 1/2 ton truck frame. This model was specifically built for National Guard units and Civilian Conservation Corps units. Much of the body was constructed from wood, and could seat up to eight occupants....

 and found "detailed plans to bomb a York Region Hindu temple and an Indian theater in Toronto", including aerial photographs and blueprints of the Vishnu Mandir Temple and India Centre cinema, as well as references to a "hit team," a "guard team" and "recon team", and amateur videotapes of the men, and the interiors of the buildings.

Name	Residence	Age
Glenn Neville Ford Glenn Neville Ford An alleged member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Glenn Neville Ford was one of five men arrested in 1993, accused, and convicted for the of plotting to bomb a Hindu temple and Indian theatre in Toronto, Canada....	Toronto, Canada	41
Khidr Ali	Toronto, Canada	28
Caba Jose Harris	Texas, USA	28
Robert Junior Wesley	Texas, USA	50
Tyrone Junior Cole	Texas, USA	34

Each of the men were charged with conspiracy to commit mischief and conspiracy to commit murder.

Trial

Eight men were accused in total. One was dismissed. Fongenie escaped to Pakistan. A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to weapons offences. Ford, the three Texans and another Toronto man, Khidr Ali, were sent to trial.
The trial was moved to St. Catharines from Toronto, and began in October 1993 The Metro Toronto Police

Toronto Police Service

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, in a move later attributed to the fact they "still really didn't know what to do with their intelligence unit", assigned their security intelligence officers to take up heavy arms and guard the courthouse.

Assistant Crown Attorney Philip Enright described documents found in the defendants' cars that suggested entering a building through a men's washroom window, and possibly having a female operative planting a bomb in the women's washroom.

It was revealed that the Chevrolet searched at the border belonged to American Wilfred Savary, and that the men had phoned him thirty times from the car phone

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 in the vehicle. A search of Savary's apartment revealed nine semi-automatic firearms.

The three Americans were deported from Canada after their sentences were completed in April 2006, and Harris was added to the TSA

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's no-fly list, as was Wesley and his aliases Robert Fitz Clarence, Bobby Johnson and Wali Muhammad.