Michael John Hamdani
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A Pakistani Canadian document-forger and immigrant-smuggler,[1] Michael John Hamdani (also Amarjit Singh Sangha, Azam Shah, Ranjit Singh, Ahmad Malik[2]) rose to notoriety after he entered a plea bargain with authorities, and triggered a manhunt for five fictitious Middle Eastern terrorists he invented.[3] Authorities were later chastised for crying wolf, and frightening the public with a terrorism alert from the information they had.[4]