“‘Without the police it would have been impossible for the defendants to carry out the pressure-cooker plan … The police decided they had to aggressively engineer and plan for Nuttall and Korody and make them think it was their own. The defendants were the foot soldiers but the undercover officer was the leader of the group.’ The judge noted that while the couple does adhere to extremist views that advocate violence to send political messages, police overstepped the bounds of their authority in their interactions with the pair.”
That may be. The police aren’t perfect. We can only hope that this judge is correct, and that Nuttall and Korody, having regained their freedom, don’t suddenly get smarter and decide to try to wage jihad again.
“Canada Day bomb plot couple freed after judge rules police entrapped them,” by Ashifa Kassam, Guardian, July 29, 2016:
A Canadian couple found guilty of planting homemade bombs outside a government building will walk free after a court in British Columbia ruled the pair was entrapped by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) into carrying out a “police-manufactured crime”.
John Nuttall, 41, and Amanda Korody, 33, were found guilty of terror charges last year after they planted inert pressure cooker bombs on the steps of British Columbia’s provincial legislature in 2013, ahead of Canada Day celebrations that drew thousands of revellers to the area.
The verdict was thrown out on Friday, after BC supreme court justice Catherine Bruce said the RCMP had manipulated the two converts to Islam into carrying out the plot.
“This was a clear case of police-manufactured crime,” Bruce wrote in her ruling. “The world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more out of marginalized people.”
The judge pointed to the couple’s mental capacity to back the assertion that the crime had been instigated by police.
“The defendants also demonstrated that they were not very intelligent, gullible and quite naive and child-like,” she said of Nuttall and Korody, who were dependent on social assistance to get by as they struggled to overcome emotional and addiction issues.
The couple posed no imminent threat, she said. “To say they were unsophisticated is generous.” Both had been facing a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The judge sided with defence’s argument that the couple had been entrapped during a five-month undercover police operation involving some 240 police officers.
“Without the police it would have been impossible for the defendants to carry out the pressure-cooker plan … The police decided they had to aggressively engineer and plan for Nuttall and Korody and make them think it was their own,” said Bruce. “The defendants were the foot soldiers but the undercover officer was the leader of the group.”
The judge noted that while the couple does adhere to extremist views that advocate violence to send political messages, police overstepped the bounds of their authority in their interactions with the pair.
“The police engaged in a multifaceted and systematic manipulation of the defendants to induce them into committing a terrorist offence,” Bruce said….

Michael Laudahn says
They should indict them for converting to islam instead. That’s crime enough.
mary says
they should go to jail this is crazy
Richard says
I live in Victoria along side these jihadis and have followed this case from the beginning. To the best of my knowledge, at no time during the court proceedings were they ever asked this question: “Was your planned violent jihad attack against Canadian civilians intended to facilitate the supplanting of Canadian democratic Constitutional law with Islamic Shari’a law?” There was no real questioning of their true motivation, just vague mentions of “radicalization”, drug addiction and social marginalization. Perhaps these people were truly too inept to have carried out the bomb plot without considerable RCMP assistance, but if Nuttall and Korody had been asked the above question and in any way replied “Yes”, they should be tried for sedition and treason.
I am now waiting to see how long it takes for the human rights lawyers here, salivating for their 40 percent cut, to initiate a wrongful imprisonment, wrongful indictment, entrapment and defamation suit which will result in these two being awarded millions of dollars in damages from the Canadian taxpayers, no doubt with a lucrative book deal thrown in. Perhaps MAC, the Muslim Association of Canada, can join with CAIR to put them on the Islamophobia speaking circuit.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
They were immediately RE arrested upon their initial release so we will have to see what those charges are about!
JIMJFOX says
Can you put up the link, John?
gravenimage says
John and Jim, here is the story:
“Terrorism convictions overturned, but accused bombers quickly re-arrested”
http://vancouversun.com/storyline/breaking-john-nuttall-and-amanda-korody-have-terrorism-convictions-overturned
They *were* rearrested, but it does not, alas, look as though that is going to add up to much.
And the article from the Vancouver Sun describes this murderous pair as “naïve and vulnerable”. Just sickening.
Axel says
They were arrested under terror provisions in the Canadian crimminal code. Specifically to restrict their actvities via peace bond and then to be released again. Cops blew it.
Westman says
I’m waiting to see how long it takes for US lawyers to cite this Canadian case in trying to overturn terrorist convictions in which the FBI was a facilitator for someone of low intellect. Perhaps, like mental illness, stupidity is about to explode on the terrorist scene.
Rob Porter says
Richard, so well said. Just wait for the Human Rights Commission to get involved. Thee HRC expose the lie to the claim that Canada is still a democracy
Angemon says
What, the police forced them at gunpoint to manufacture and place the IEDs?
RCCA says
Why wouldn’t they be manipulated by ISIS to do the same thing, only this time with a real bomb? If anything, they might be more angry and hateful towards the kuffar for playing that trick on them. Shouldn’t they at least be on probation or under surveillance? Maybe they are. I expect the next story about them will be that they have traveled to Syria.
Ashley says
“The judge noted that while the couple does adhere to extremist views that advocate violence to send political messages…”
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The only one I see who has demonstrated that she isn’t very intelligent, gullible and quite naive and child-like is Judge Catherine Bruce…
Jim says
The defence in this case called an expert, Omid Safi, a crackademic who now heads the Islamic Studies department at Duke and who outrageously once accused Robert Spencer of threatening to kill him and his family. The crown didn’t know how to properly cross-examine him and didn’t call an expert of their own. Here are some of the relevant paragraphs from the judge’s ruling:
[479] In regard to spiritual guidance, Dr. Safi testified that it is the tradition of the Islamic faith that a person will study to become qualified to provide opinions on the meaning of the Quran and the hadiths of the Prophets through years of formal education and study similar to the Jewish faith. A person must study for eight to ten years before they earn a diploma and be qualified to provide legal opinions about the faith. While an individual may disagree with these authoritative opinions, they are required to seek out the “fatwas” or learned legal opinions rather than interpreting it on their own. A person qualified to give such legal opinions is called a “mufti”. Both the Sunni and the Shia sects of the Islamic faith have cultivated schools of legal reasoning that form the basis for the rules governing all of the tenets of the faith. Dr. Safi testified that an imam, who is a prayer leader at a mosque, is qualified to provide legal opinions for almost all questions that a Muslim would pose. An imam becomes qualified by attending a seminary and must achieve a minimum level of training in the Quran.
[480] While the Salafi and Modernist traditions within the Islamic faith have tended to support individuals coming to an independent reasoning regarding the Quran and the hadiths, even these groups have rejected any form of violent jihad and have confined this concept to an internal struggle. As Dr. Safi clarified in his evidence, by promoting the introspective approach to the interpretation of the faith, and at the same time failing to point out to Mr. Nuttall the Modernist non-violent approach to jihad, the RCMP isolated Mr. Nuttall from any moderate viewpoint and simultaneously propelled him toward a more radical concept of jihad.
[481] Jihad is defensive or offensive in character. Defensive jihad refers to an internal struggle and to defending oneself against personal attacks. Offensive jihad is the initiation of an external attack and Modernists believe the Quran provides no authority to wage offensive jihad. This is also the approach of mainstream scholarship. Where external jihad is authorized, there are numerous limits including prohibitions on genocide and the killing of civilians, women, and children.
http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/sc/16/14/2016BCSC1404.htm
JIMJFOX says
Omid Safi- yet another taqiyya/tawriya/kitman/muruna artist who could have
been cut to shreds by any reasonably competent koran reader. Oh, Canada!!
164 Jihad Verses in the Koran
http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/jihad_passages.html
gravenimage says
Thanks for that additional information, Jim–dispiriting as it is.
JIMJFOX says
“marginalized people.”
Yep- they ALL plant bombs, everyone knows that.
Alex says
Well they can use machetes next time … Our judicial system is a total joke … I can imagine the feelings of the police officers devoted all that time to capture criminals in action … Isn’t that what they suppose to do ? privide means or honeypots to capture ( child rapist , pedophiles , drug dealers or terrorist ) !!!
Western Canadian says
Is the judge going to use the same defence (for herself) that she applied to these two, if and when their actions support the idea that, yes, holding views that embrace extreme violence is a good indicator of being willing to and capable of acting on these beliefs?
Her lack of sophistication, as well as lack of intelligence, is astounding.
gravenimage says
Canada: Muslims who planted bombs at legislature freed: “police-manufactured crime”
………………..
Uh huh. What would anyone here do if someone came to them saying they would help us carry out a homicidal terror plot? I think our only hesitation would be whether we should go to our local police or take it directly to national security.
This is not like a sting where someone offers you a cheap flat-screen TV off the back of a van. Sure–it’s probably not kosher, and is either hot or a police set-up–but just about everyone wants inexpensive consumer goods, even perfectly decent people. It *is possible* that an unintelligent but otherwise good person could get caught up in a sting like this.
But what about murdering Infidels? Does the average Canadian–or anyone in the West–dream of slaughtering unbelievers if only they had the funding and logistics covered?
Well, *f*ck no*. But John Nuttall and Amanda Korody–I wonder what their *Muslim names* are?–wanted to do this. These Muslims should be charged with Jihad plotting, because that’s what it is.
KnowThyEnemy says
Yes they should be charged, but more importantly, we should learn something about Islam’s inner workings from this incident. People often point out how stupid and low-IQ so many Muslims are. I used to wonder that if they really are so low-IQ, how is it that they always manage to get an upper hand on the much higher IQ non-Muslims?
In order to understand that, one has to first realize that there also are many very smart people among the Muslims. Many of them grow up to become mullahs and Islamists (political). They are the ones who plan and direct things in order to protect and advance Islam, and they usually quite successfully manage to do this no matter where they are.
Their modus operandi is to use the naive, gullible Muslims. Yes, these low-IQ Muslims are “not very intelligent, gullible and quite naive and child-like,” yet they almost always have working limbs (hence capable of carrying out physical attacks) and the right to vote. They are the perfect henchmen for the cunning mullahs and Islamists.
If these henchmen are arrested or killed, nothing bad happens to the Islamists themselves. In fact they always do propaganda and manage to use the incident to their favor. The low-IQ judges and other officials only make the Islamists’ work easier. On top of that, the mullahs have a ready supply of more such henchmen.
If on the other hand, the henchmen succeeds in doing what they were told to do (e.g. attack an apostate or an anti-Islam figure, vote for certain candidate, etc.) then too the math works in favor of the mullahs/Islamists. They have one less person opposing them (or their politician of choice gets into power, etc.)
Hence they win and keep gaining power.
Conclusion: The low-IQ Muslims are so effective because of their [sort of] teamwork with the high-IQ mullahs and Islamists. The solution to staying safe then, is to keep ALL of the Muslims, both low-IQ and high-IQ, OUT of your country!
Larry A. Singleton says
This is where the term “useful idiots” come in handy. Where people think that the police and prosecutors aren’t capable of this type of behavior. Besides; this couple looks like they’re just this side of Downs Syndrome. I’m all for a little subterfuge when it comes to getting scumbags off the street. I’ve been shot at, robbed and beaten senseless by groups of gang members.
Prosecutors are totally corrupt and totally out of control in this country as you can see at the federal level with Obama’s Justice Department going after those they perceive as their enemies. Like the Muhammad movie video maker and George Zimmerman who was prosecuted by child predator Angela Corey who put a twelve year old child on trial as an ADULT for MURDER.
Read Mean Justice by Edward Humes and The Innocent Man by John Grisham.
I’ve been the target of local prosecutors here in San Bernardino. For going over the three minute speaking limit during Public Comment.
Read Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson (Read about what an academic, liberal lynch mob combined with prosecutorial misconduct looks like)
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage and the Family” by Stephen Baskerville; I encourage people to at least get off their fat butts and read the Introduction at Amazon. I usually plug The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers along with Baskerville’s book. If you bother to read them you’ll see why. Most people have no clue just how bad our judicial system is until your kids are kidnapped and you walk into a family law and child support court as a member of the working poor. I have absolutely no sympathy for people, even those clued in to the terror issues, who are whistling a merry tune until they get a rude awakening by the government. Usually you hear about those dealing with medical expenses who assume they have medical insurance. Then all of a sudden….they don’t.
Like Creeping Sharia and, surprise surprise, Islamic terrorist attacks that kill members of your family, people are blissfully unaware of the economic genocide against fathers in this country. And don’t seem to care less until it happens to them.
As a construction worker who has seen illegals take my wages from 16 down to 8 bucks an hour, then down to nothing at all and slowly squeeze the life out of California I have a special special appreciation for what’s going on with “creeping” Islam. I wish I could Vulcan Mind Meld this appreciation, of how millions of fathers are getting screwed, into the minds of everybody reading this.
Purple Heart’s Final Beat – A Soldier Suicide Story (You Tube video)
Larry A. Singleton says
“The defendants also demonstrated that they were not very intelligent, gullible and quite naive and child-like,” she said of Nuttall and Korody, who were dependent on social assistance to get by as they struggled to overcome emotional and addiction issues.”
I read this after posting my comment. I have no problem at all believing every word of this. “unscrupulous” is the first word that comes to mind when I think of the lengths prosecutors and some police will go to get a conviction. And this administration has absolutely no scruples at all when it comes to who they will sacrifice to make themselves look good or give themselves smack points.
Or is this government corrupt only in areas we want them to be?
Daniel Triplett says
That’s heartbreaking Larry. Impossible to watch with a dry eye. Thanks for sharing.
My Squadron had a 75% divorce rate. I lost a marriage too.
Many of us came home in Flag-draped aluminum boxes, and they have my deepest respect. The Ultimate Sacrifice. Nothing chokes me up more than a man dying for his country.
We all sacrificed something, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat. They were simultaneously the best and worst years of my life.
DANIEL J. TRIPLETT, Maj, USAF (IRR)
6 year War Vet, Afghanistan/Iraq
Lesley says
They have the vacuous stare of the mildly retarded (which probably explains why they converted to Islam).
I’m sure they were perfectly capable of doing something horrible. Who knew that dullards could engender so much sympathy from the Court?
Dinosaur Teeth says
Mental Illness…
What a Killer…
They should have done some time in Prison, or been Committed…
Even dumb people need to be taught the difference between right and wrong, and stupidity is no Excuse…
Islam is like Paint Thinner on the Veneer of Society…
Don’t tell that to the apologists, they wont believe it…
Then they’ll want you Dead…
Lioness says
This nauseating judgement means that the police now will be reluctant to investigate possible terrorism threats and will have to wait untill the jihad is actually committed. It completely restrics the police in their duty to protect us. One more step towards islamists’ victory and our defeat.
Lu Mahalo says
FACT: ISLAM, Sharia Law and Muslims are 180° opposite from American & Canadian values, traditions and our laws. They have NOTHING good for the future of us.
• Sharia Law is what drives Muslims. Sharia Law states that there is NO other law and that Islam is only religion…period!
• According to Sharia, it is the duty of Muslims to eliminate all non-Sharia Laws and replace them with Sharia. Further, Sharia requires that other religions be eradicated.
• Therefore, Sharia requires the overthrow of America and Canada and the removal of our Bills of Rights. This makes Sharia subversive, traitorous and unlawful.
• ALL American and Canadian citizens should be required to swear an oath disavowing Sharia.
• Deport any immigrant who refuses and place natural born on a terror watch list.
FACT: In England, Muslims have set up 85+ Sharia Law courts…against English laws…80% of Muslim marriages are not recognized by English law.
FACT: Poll after poll, of Muslims everywhere, show that they are sympathetic to the goals of ISIS and al-Qaeda.
FACT: Islamic ideology is to rid the world of NON-MUSLIMS. If you doubt, read the Koran. It is written.
FACT: And then there is Islam’s secret: Hijra … jihad by emigration.
Muslims conquer when they can. If they cannot conquer, they integrate . . . until it is time to conquer.
steve says
Perhaps they might be found dead soon. car crash, bear attack,drowning, who cares,,just dead.
Hugo says
Anyone gets murdered by them in the future the judge should serve their sentence.
Moshe Akiva says
I love this story, especially because I live in Canada. And because obviously the savages now know how to make a pressure cooker bomb. Excellent!
Barry says
Just when I get to thinking there is no humor left in the world I hear the news about what Canadians are up to and laugh and laugh. If it’s not Justin skipping down the street leading a gay parade it’s blaming the police for some mental incompetent wanting to blow people up. Now to finish off my night of comedy I’m off to tune in CNN and listen to them blame Mr. Trump for the Monarch Butterfly dying off. The fun never stops these days.
UNCLE VLADDI says
THE COPS DESPERATELY WANTED WHITE JIHADIS THEY COULD HOLD UP. AS PROOF THAT…. ER, RACISM?