Canadian Library bomber jailed two years

Anonymous Patron writes The Globe and Mail: Library bomber jailed two years A Quebec judge described the firebombing of Montreal’s United Talmud Torah school as a hate-fuelled act of terrorism yesterday and sent its 19-year-old author to a federal penitentiary for two years.

With an emotionless gaze, Sleiman El-Merhebi rose in the prisoner’s box to hear Quebec Court Judge Jean Sirois deliver his punishment. The teenager avoided eye contact with his father, Khaled, the patriarch who brought his family to Canada from war-torn Lebanon 17 years ago to seek a new life of peace and tranquillity.”