Man with al-Qaida ties who threatened to bomb subway pleads guilty in Montreal

MONTREAL — The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit.

Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and threatening to blow it up.

A joint statement of facts tabled in Quebec court says Warsame told a social worker at Montreal’s Old Brewery homeless shelter that he wanted to kill a million people by using bombs to blow up trains or subways.

The Somali-born Canadian citizen previously pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaida.