The mastermind of a failed Al Qaeda plot to attack Canada, Zakaria Amara has been sentenced to life by a Toronto Court. The plot was to cripple Canada by setting off truck bombs in front of the country's main stock exchange, a military base and even Parliament House. 24-year-old Jordanian-born Canadian citizen Amara had pleaded guilty in October last year to co-leading a militant group dubbed as the Toronto 18, consist of 18 Muslims, mostly of Pakistani origin. The targets included a military base also. Amara will be eligible for parole in six-and-a-half years. Employed as a gas station attendant, Amara organised a terrorist training camp at a rural property north of Toronto and urged recruits to aid his planned jihad. Months later, the terrorist group splintered, and a breakaway faction began to talk of storming the Parliament. Amara's plan involved packing three rented U-Haul trucks with explosives made with metal chips to cause more deaths, and detonating them at the three targets on a mid-November in 2006.