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This courtroom sketch shows Raed Jaser appearing in court in Toronto on April 23, 2013. Two foreign nationals arrested on suspicion of what police say was an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train in the Toronto area made their first court appearances Tuesday. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested for allegedly planning to carry out an attack on a Via Rail train, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told a news conference. The pair have been charged with conspiring to carry out an attack and conspiring with a terrorist group to murder persons, though very few details about the alleged plot have so far been revealed. AFP PHOTO/Alexandra NEWBOULD