"He's perfectly happy with the outcome," his lawyer Russell Silverstein told reporters outside the Brampton courthouse. "It could have been a lot worse." The Crown had been seeking a term of 18 to 20 years.

Khalid
is the first member of the "Toronto 18" terrorist group to plead
guilty, and the second to be sentenced. A 21-year-old (who cannot be
named because he was a youth at the time) was convicted last September
and sentenced to 30 months in jail.

Khalid was born in
Saudi Arabia and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1995. Although
raised in a moderate Muslim household in Mississauga, Ont., he began to
drift toward extremism late in high ...

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"He's perfectly happy with the outcome," his lawyer Russell Silverstein told reporters outside the Brampton courthouse. "It could have been a lot worse." The Crown had been seeking a term of 18 to 20 years.

Khalid
is the first member of the "Toronto 18" terrorist group to plead
guilty, and the second to be sentenced. A 21-year-old (who cannot be
named because he was a youth at the time) was convicted last September
and sentenced to 30 months in jail.

Khalid was born in
Saudi Arabia and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1995. Although
raised in a moderate Muslim household in Mississauga, Ont., he began to
drift toward extremism late in high school, the judge said.

In
December, 2005, he attended a training camp in Washago, north of
Toronto, where he was nicknamed Abu Canada because he wore a red toque
with the name of his adopted country emblazoned on it.

A
"statement of uncontested facts" released by the Crown said the purpose
of the camp was to train potential recruits for the terrorist group and
assess whether they were suitable candidates for membership.

A
video filmed at the camp shows men dressed in camouflage uniforms
shooting as they yell "God is Great" in Arabic. In a second video, one
of the suspects says, "Rome has to be defeated, and we have to be the
ones that do it."