Two men who plotted a terror attack to derail a VIA Rail passenger train travelling between Toronto and New York could get a new trial because the judge hearing their case allegedly called the FBI’s undercover agent, who was the key witness against them, “a hero,” during the trial.
Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser are using the comment, purportedly made in private to the FBI agent’s handler, to challenge their convictions and sentences to life in prison for an al-Qaida-inspired plot.
The conversation with the judge is recounted in a published memoir by the undercover agent.
