A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a man previously convicted of supporting al-Qaida has been charged after allegedly threatening an attack in Montreal.

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, allegedly told an employee at a homeless shelter in Montreal that he wanted to build bombs to detonate on public transit.

He has been charged with uttering threats and appeared at the Montreal courthouse Thursday morning by videoconference.

He was back in court Friday, where a psychiatric evaluation was ordered. It’s expected to take 30 days to complete.

The RCMP confirmed on Thursday that the same man pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaida. He was deported to Canada in 2010 and had no fixed address at the time of the alleged inci

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