An image from a video believed to be recorded by, and showing, terrorism suspects Amanda Korody, left, and John Nuttall.
A husband and wife accused of plotting to explode pressure-cooker bombs outside the B.C. Legislature on Canada Day recorded a video to explain their motivation for the attack – although the video required a second take, the man misquoted Osama bin Laden and the woman made a call to arms she later decided was "stupid."
John Nuttall and Amanda Korody are accused of placing the pressure-cooker devices outside the legislature on July 1, 2013. They have pleaded not guilty. On Monday, in their B.C. Supreme Court trial, the jury viewed the video recorded two days before the attack was to be carried out and surveillance footage taken at the same time.
In the video, Mr. Nuttall and Ms. Korody sit in front of a black flag. Their faces are covered; Mr. Nuttall wears a leather jacket and Ms. Korody is in a burka. Two undercover RCMP officers are also in the motel room.
Mr. Nuttall begins the video by addressing his "brothers and sisters." He then introduces his wife and says the two are Muslim converts. Mr. Nuttall goes on to say Muslims are being mistreated and attacked.
"We want to tell you people out there that what you're doing to the Muslims is wrong," he says. "… Your bombs kill everything."
Mr. Nuttall adds that Muslims should never trust the non-believers and should fight.
Ms. Korody, in her remarks, urges Muslims not to despair.
"It may appear that we are losing, but we are not. Allah is on our side, and Allah will always bring success to his followers," she says.
Ms. Korody says Muslims should fight the non-believers with whatever they have.
"If you have a stone, throw it. If you have a bomb, drop it. If all you can do is give them the finger, then give it to them. They are evil," she says.
Ms. Korody concludes by saying that any suffering any Muslim goes through will pale in comparison to the suffering the "godless heathens" will ultimately face.
The first take lasts about 3 1/2 minutes. But almost as soon as it is over, Mr. Nuttall expresses dissatisfaction with his comments and asks to record a second clip.
In the second take, which lasts about five minutes, Mr. Nuttall says enemies of Islam have forced him and his wife to act.
"You see what you make us do? We have to do this. I wasn't recruited by anybody to do this. I'm doing this of my own free will. If anything, I was recruited by this country's crimes against humanity," he says, pointing to Canada's support for Israel.
Mr. Nuttall, at one point in the second video, attempts to quote Mr. bin Laden.
"As Sheikh Osama said something that really got to me. He said, uh, 'As you send us your bombs we'll send us – we'll send you ours. As you kill, we will kill. And as you bomb, we will bomb.' He said something like that."
Ms. Korody, in the second video, says: "A war on Islam is a war against the servants of God. So serve your God and fight."
Ms. Korody very quickly expresses regret over that comment. "That was actually kind of stupid, what I said at the end," she says in the surveillance footage.
Mr. Nuttall also voices concern about his comments in the second video.
"I just made an ass of myself," he says. "… I misquoted the Sheikh."
Mr. Nuttall several times asks one of the undercover officers to have that part of the clip edited out.
The trial began last month. The only witness so far has been an undercover police officer. Defence lawyers have not yet had an opportunity to question the officer.