Teen pleads guilty to Jewish school firebombing

[QueerJustice]

One of the main suspects in the firebombing of a Jewish school in Montreal has pleaded guilty to arson. In exchange, the conspiracy charge against him has been dropped.

Sleiman Elmerhebi, now 19, made the plea in a Quebec courtroom on Thursday.

The arson "was an emotional response," Elmerhebi told the court. "I was reacting to acts of violence in the Middle East that I saw on television."

Three people were originally charged in connection with the April attack on the United Talmud Torahs school. Charges were dropped against one man in October because of lack of evidence.

Elmerhebi's mother Bouba Elmerhebi Fahd, 36, is still facing a charge of being an accessory after the fact for allegedly helping her son travel to Brazil after the incident.

Her lawyer was out of the country and she will return to court at a later date. She is free on $10,000 bail and is forbidden from contacting her son.

Evidence read in court said Elmerhebi's arrest was prompted by police wiretaps and surveillance. He was tracked by police after tanks of kerosene found at the school were traced back to a Canadian Tire store where the manager confirmed Elmerhebi was an employee.

Store surveillance cameras and receipts confirmed him as the buyer of the tanks. Receipts were also found in Elmerhebi's home when it was searched by police.

Although Elmerhebi's family has pleaded for leniency, B'nai Brith regional director Bill Surkis said he deserves a stiff sentence.

"I would certainly hope and expect that there would be something in that sentence that would act as a deterrent to anyone else who would consider that they could do this sort of thing," he said.



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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1103211951012_8?hub=Canada



IT WAS NOT NEO NAZI....why export your hate to peaceful canada....it was a JEWISH school....not Israeli....DO THEY DIFFERENTIATE? LOL guess thats not anti-semitism but ``ANTI-ZIONIST``




:nuke:

[QueerJustice]

1. C MON

Lets treat this scum leniently......

Afterall he bombed a Jewish school in reaction to Zionist thuggery.....


:puke:

[QueerJustice]

2. oh this is a rigt wing source???

CTV???


(pre empting replies :) A rightwing fagott??? lol try....(I AINT LOGCABIN)

[TO Kid]

16. CTV

CTV is our national TV network.

[Tuco Ramirez]

4. Believe me, they won't be harsh

or his family will overthrow the Canadian government; as they say in "Hang'em High", when you take the Devil in your mouth...

[QueerJustice]

8. Oh that makes perfect sense to me...

....:wtf:

[Tuco Ramirez]

13. I mean the manner in which their gov't

tiptoes around their muslims (out of fear of reprisal).

[drdon326]

14. Ohhhhh....you mean like FRANCE. n/t

.

[Flagg]

15. Headscarf law

[newyorican]

3. Yikes!

:crazy:

It's neither I nor P. But the conversation you are having with yourself is somewhat entertaining.

[drdon326]

5. Oh really ??

i/p doesnt stop from the "river to the sea"......its the same "brothers of monkey ans swine" that permeates the filty anti-semitism of the i/p issue.

[Englander]

6. Calm down,Dotty....

If we posted a thread everytime a Jewish/Islamic school, or graveyard,or Synagogue, or Mosque is attacked or defaced anywhere in the World there would be no room for anything else.
Just assume that we are all adults here,and can tell the difference between the claims made by an emotionally disturbed teenager,and any incident that has any bearing on I/P.

[drdon326]

7. Please do , oh condescending one.....

Claiming its one emotionally disturbed teenager fails to look at all the other acts of jihadofascism.

Post away !!

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[Djinn]

17. yes it does

jewish does not, never has and never will equal Jewish. Stuff that relates to ISrael does NOT relate to all Jews, stuff that relates to Jews does not neccesarily relate to Israel.

Can we now posts incidences of anti-muslim bias/crimes here? or anti arab bias/crimes regardless of it having ZERO connection to Palestine?

[Forkboy]

18. I'd love that

A mosque was burned down here in Mass a week ago.I'd love to share the story with Don,QJ and Pelsarimel.

[Djinn]

20. hehehe

Pelsarimel

careful you might start getting called "little"forkboy!

[drdon326]

21. Forkboy....by all means...share the story.

i'm interested.

[Forkboy]

22. dumbass kids here in Mass

http://www.masslive.com/newsflash/mass/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1103042941160340.xml&storylist=massnews

In another story a kid was arrested for spray painting swaztika's down on Cape Cod.He didn't even know what they really meant,just that it pissed adults off and was "shocking". :eyes:

Stupidity is running rampant the world over.

[drdon326]

23. From the article.....

Rasul Seifullah, the mosque's imam, said he was relieved that local, state and federal investigators ruled out the possibility that the fire was a hate crime. Still, he was disheartened that neighborhood teenagers were charged with burning a place of worship for about 100 area Muslims.

"A lot of young people are actually lost," Seifullah told The Associated Press. "They have no focus, no discipline, no purpose. I'd like to sit down and talk to them and find out where they're coming from and what was on their minds when they did this."


The imam is alot more understanding than i would be and he sounds like a nice guy.

As for the "kids " who did this, i believe they should be prosectuted as "ADULTS" and if found guilty, i say 30 years would be about right...in solitary.

[newyorican]

24. A lot of people...

are more understanding than you double d.

[drdon326]

25. OUCH !! That hurts.

lol

[Forkboy]

29. The point was that niether story relates to the I/P situation

[drdon326]

26. Thanks again for sharing.

i really appreciate it.

[Forkboy]

28. no problem buddy

[QueerJustice]

27. Well the vast majority of Jews...

See it differently...and so do the perpetrators of these terrorist acts...this teen for example was bombing a Jewish day school in ``revenge`` for the assassination of Rantissi...assasinated not by world Jewry but Israeli Jews...who are part of world Jewry.....hence he bombs a Jewish day school....Bin Laden has expressed similar sentiment......Me ...I understand it perfectly....

[QueerJustice]

9. Firebombing a Jewish day school...

.....in response to events in Israel is not I or P...??


How conveniant for your argument. And the Bali bombing had nothing to do with Australia I guess?

No connection here whatsoever....

Makes perfect sense to me.....:silly:

[Djinn]

19. given it killed more INdonesians than AUstralians

personally the Australia-centred coverage of it was a bit offensive - AUstralians got rushed back to modern hospitals the Indonesians who were already being exploited by australain football teams on holiday were left to rot.

There has been Islamic fundie terrorism in Indonesia for some time (and corresponding Christian fundie terror too) that has had nothing to do with Australia - this attack was most likely aimed at westerners given that the club in question refused entry to Indonesians (nice!) but to claim it as an Australian tragedy is to once again ignore the non western victims.

Again - would you think posting incidences of anti-arab/muslim crimes anywhere and everywhere in the world would be relevant in a forum about ISRAEL and PALESTINE as opposed to ARABS and JEWS??

[jcksonpdfile]

11. send him to jail!!!

[QueerJustice]

12. Probably not...

---this is Canada after all , maybe they will give him a few hours of community service...say collecting charity for hamas(the social services wing of hamas of course)