Posted on 02/26/2004 5:40:05 AM PST by SJackson
America's norther neighbor continues to serve as a favorite operational base and transit country for terrorists.
An American courtroom just witnessed the first conviction ever of a Canadian citizen in the War on Terror.
Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 21, originally from Kuwait, pleaded guilty to several charges of planning attacks against American interests outside the United States. The charges include conspiracy to kill US nationals, destroy US property abroad with weapons of mass destruction, kill American employees while on duty, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The WMD, in this case, was dynamite. According to Canadian newspapers, Jabarah was tried secretly at an undisclosed location in New York state.
Jabarah came to Canada with his family at age 12 and attended a Catholic high school in St. Catherines, Ontario. However, he returned summers to his native Kuwait where he and his older brother fell under the influence of Muslim extremists. After high school, the Canadian Islamist went to Afghanistan, where he underwent guerrilla and explosives training at an al-Qaeda camp, rising up in the terrorist organization due to his proficiency in English and his Canadian passport. Jabarah eventually became a member of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard unit, coming into frequent contact with the al-Qaeda leader.
The day before 9/11, the Canadian terrorist, whose code name was "Sammy", was given $10,000 and sent to Southeast Asia to liaison with Islamist terrorist groups there and to organize strikes of his own. He is known to have met with Hambali, the mastermind of the Bali bombing in Indonesia, and is believed to have had a role in its planning. Jabarah himself became the ringleader of a plot to blow up Western embassies in Singapore with truck bombs.
Fortunately, the plot was uncovered in time, causing Jabarah to flee to Oman, a Persian Gulf state. Arrested there, he was returned to Canada, where, after a meeting with Canadian intelligence officials, he was persuaded to walk across the border at Niagara Falls to talk with American authorities. The Americans, happy to have such a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative walk into their arms, spirited their intelligence find away to a secret location, presumably a military facility in Brooklyn, New York.
While in American custody, Jabarah’s older brother, Abdul Rahman, continued to carry the family flag in the sick and twisted world of Islamist terrorism. Last May, he and 18 other al-Qaeda Islamists fought a gun battle with security forces in Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaeda then struck one week later with suicide truck bombers who killed 34 people and wounded hundreds more in housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. However, the older Jabarah's career path as Islamist terrorist was cut short last July when Saudi authorities killed him.
Unfortunately, the younger Jabarah was not the only Canadian Islamist on trial in the United States this month. Mohammed Warasame, 30, a Somali-Canadian, is facing a charge in a Minnesota courtroom of providing support to a terrorist organization. According to an FBI affidavit, Warasame, a former Toronto resident, wired money to people he met in Taliban training camps in Afghanistan where he taught English to al-Qaeda members and saw combat in a Taliban military unit. He once sat next to Osama bin Laden at a meal and had asked the al-Qaeda leader for money to move his family to Afghanistan. Instead, bin Laden, whom Warasame described in the affidavit as "very inspirational", gave him an airplane ticket back to North America and $1,700 in traveling money.
Moreover, another Canadian citizen returned recently from a stint as a guest of the US government in Guantanamo Bay. Abdurahman Khadr, 21, a Toronto resident whose family comes from Egypt, had trained at a Taliban camp in Afghanistan, where he fell into American hands. Khadr has the dubious honor of belonging to Canada's first family of terrorism. His younger brother, Omar, is still interned in Guantanamo Bay, charged with killing an American soldier with a grenade in a firefight in Afghanistan. Khadr's father, Ahmed Said, was killed in a shootout with security forces in Pakistan last fall, while still another brother, 14-year-old Abdul, was wounded in the same fight and now lies paralyzed in a Pakistani hospital. Only the oldest Khadr son, Abdullah, who once ran a Taliban training camp, is still at large.
Opportunely, a US Library of Congress report also appeared this month in Canadian papers, accusing Canada of becoming a haven for Islamist terrorists and a liability in the War on Terror. Called 'The Nations Hospitable to Organized Crime and Terrorism', the document, compiled last fall by the US Congress's research division and the Central Intelligence Agency's Crime and Narcotics Center, takes America's northern neighbor to task for its loose security environment. The report blames Canada's "...generous social welfare system, lax immigration laws, infrequent prosecutions, light sentencing, and long borders...", among other factors, for making it a favorite destination for terrorist and criminal groups, which are "increasingly using Canada as an operational base and transit country en route to the United States."
While these findings are nothing new, as US governors, intelligence officials and Canadian conservatives have constantly pointed them out, their results continue to emerge in American courtrooms and, it appears, will unfortunately do so for the foreseeable future.
Well, a big thanks to Jean Chretien and all the other Liberal terrorist huggers. They are all stupid twits and soon will be out of power. On the bright side, it looks like most of this family is either dead or incapacitated, which they fully deserve. Bastards. That little 21 year old puke is back in the country though? He better not cross paths with me or I'll shove a plunger up his a**.
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