The Canadians, who may have converted to Islam, were helped to reach the Darpakhel areas of the lawless tribal belt after joining radical Egyptian group Jihad al-Islami, Hong Kong based Asia Times reported.
Their presence in the camps in Pakistan's tribal belt comes close on the heels of intelligence warnings that al-Qaida is training armed cadres from several European countries, including Germany, in such camps.
Arab intelligence agencies have already warned that foreign recruits are being trained to carry out terror attacks in European mainland triggering a continent-wide alert.
"The Canadians went to Afghanistan in February 2010; there were 12 of them. After nine months, al-Qaida's leaders decided to send them to North Waziristan and they reached Darpakhel in November last year," Arif Wazir, a local militant of Darpakhel, was quoted as saying in the report.
The report, quoting well placed Taliban sources, says militant training to Canadians is a part of al-Qaida plans to recruit, train and launch Western Caucasians in their countries... the aim is to spread the flames of the South Asian war theatre to the West."
"In Afghanistan they received basic jihadi training, while currently they are busy doing some special courses. Their main learning is how to use soph [...]
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