Incident Date:
October 18, 2001
Incident Successful: No
Location: Unknown Italy
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Unknown
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Unknown
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/18/2001: Amid Tarid Rizk, an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, was arrested after Italian police discovered him stowed away in a container on a ship bound for Canada. When discovered, Rizk was in possession of a Canadian passport, a return airline ticket from Montreal to Egypt, a computer, a satellite telephone, two mobile phone, cameras, maps and a security pass for a Thai airport. He was also in possession of a certificate indicating that he was an aircraft mechanic."
References: 1) "Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). (2003). The international terrorist threat to maritime transportation, CSIS Study #2003-4/02."
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