Egan: 1989 Hill hijacker won pardon, legally obtained 17 more guns

Charles Yacoub hijacked a Greyhound bus in 1989, put a gun to the driver’s head, scared the life out of 10 passengers and brought downtown Ottawa to a standstill during a six-hour standoff on the lawn of Parliament Hill.
He helped rewrite the book on what a “security threat” really meant when Middle East grievances were violently transferred to a faraway, peaceful capital.
And what happened in 2008?
Yacoub was pardoned.
And what happened in 2012? Yacoub had legally registered 1