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Toronto 18 ringleader says he's sorry

""I will turn myself around, from a man of destruction to a man of construction," said Zakaria Amara, the linchpin of the so-called Toronto 18 homegrown terror cell, while addressing a Brampton court at his sentencing hearing Thursday."

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""I deserve nothing less than your complete and absolute contempt," said Amara, addressing his "fellow Canadians" from the prisoner box.

To those in the Muslim community, he said he could not imagine the "embarrassment or anxiety" they must have felt back in the summer of 2006, when he and 17 others were arrested for plotting an Al Qaeda inspired attack."

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"In 1997, his family returned to Canada and Amara developed a stronger interest in Islamic studies. While attending Meadowvale Secondary School in Mississauga he led Muslim students in prayer sessions.

After high school, he applied to the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia but was rejected..."

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"In the letter read aloud in court, Farooq said her husband's extremist views were fuelled by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The oppression of Muslims by western forces became the central reason for his devising the macabre plot."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cry me a river.