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'''Jamal Akal''' (جمال عكل) was a [[Canadians|Canadian citizen]] arrested by Israeli security forces in 2003, and accused of conspiring with [[Hamas]] leaders to target and assassinate an Israeli politician travelling to the United States.<ref name="mofa">Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2003/Hamas-trained%20terrorist-%20Canadian%20national-%20arrest Hamas-trained terrorist, Canadian national, arrested by ISA], December 8, 2003</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Akal moved to Canada in 1999 and obtained Canadian citizenship. In 2003 he left [[Windsor, Ontario]] and returned to Palestine to look for a wife, and became acquainted with [[Mohammed Bashir Abut Matar]], who urged him to avenge the death of his cousin at Israeli military hands.<ref name="nefa"/><br />
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==Arrest and sentencing==<br />
Akal was arrested November 1, 2003, several days after arriving in the [[Gaza strip]].<ref name="mofa"/> His lawyer Jamil al-Qatib complained that any information stemming from his 20-hour-a-day interrogations over a period of two weeks was useless.<ref name="erez">Amichai, Rami. [[Erez Crossing]], [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336890251.html Israel remands Canadian in alleged attack plot], December 16, 2003</ref><ref>[[New York Times]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/international/middleeast article]</ref><br />
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Pleading guilty on November 24, he said that he had been counseled by [[Ahmed Wahabe]] to follow an unnamed Israeli politician touring the United States, and raise funds in North American mosques to purchase an [[M16 rifle]] with which to launch a [[sniper]] attack, killing the target.<ref name="mofa"/><ref name="nefa">[[NEFA Foundation]], [http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/HamasPlot.pdf Target America: Analysis of the Jamal Akal case], July 2007</ref> He also claimed that he had been told to attribute the attack to [[al-Qaeda]], rather than [[Hamas]];<ref name="mofa"/> while Hamas denied any knowledge of Akal, stating that they limited all their actions to the Palestinian region.<ref name="erez"/><br />
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Akal was sentenced to four years' imprisonment by the [[military court]], and was released back to Canada in August 2007.<ref name="nefa"/><br />
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