The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid terrorism charges in absentia against a man from the city of Calgary who was seen burning his Canadian passport and threatening U.S. President Barack Obama in an Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda video, The Canadian Press reported on Thursday.
The man, Farah Mohamed Shirdon, 22, faces several offences, including participation in the activity of a terrorist group and instructing others to carry out terrorist activity.
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