Posted on 03/21/2005 8:45:48 AM PST by quidnunc
Let's hope Honduras is awash in American agents. Al Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly has dispatched Islamo-fascist murderers to penetrate the U.S. via Tegucigalpa, where bribe-hungry authorities allegedly sell passports to smooth passage through Mexico to the human highway known as the U.S.-Mexican border.
But American officials better eye the northern frontier, too. Canadians seem rather relaxed about some who inhabit the land nestled between Alaska and the Lower 48. While most Canadians are as friendly as Labrador retrievers, that attitude is not universal.
"I'm not afraid of dying, and killing doesn't frighten me," Algerian-born Canadian Fateh Kamel said on an Italian counterterrorism intercept. "If I have to press the remote control, vive the jihad!"
Kamel, who jet-setted among Afghanistan, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, was arrested in Jordan on December 15, 1999, and extradited to France. He was convicted of distributing bogus passports and conspiring to blow up Paris Metro stations. He was sentenced April 6, 2001, to eight years in prison.
But after fewer than four years, France sprang Kamel for "good behavior." (What is it about iron bars and German shepherds that mellows people so?) Kamel flew home to Canada January 29.
"When Kamel arrived in Montreal, the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] was not even at the airport to greet him," Canada's National Post reported last month. "As far as they're concerned, he is an ex-convict who has done his time and has committed no crimes in Canada."
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There you go quid ... trying to make us look good again.
Government, what government? We have libs up here right now running the show ... not true Canadians.
Don't worry quiddy, no one's going to hump your leg!
Canada has been humping America's leg since the Trudeau days.
MacKay wants Kamel’s return to Canada investigated
A senior Conservative Party politician wants an investigation into an Algerian-Canadian who served a prison term in France for extremist activities but who has now returned to Canada. "It’s startling to think he has returned to Canada," Peter MacKay told CTV Newsnet on Saturday, referring to Fateh Kamel, 44.
On Saturday, the National Post reported that Kamel was convicted in France in 2001 of "participating in a criminal association for the purposes of preparing acts of terrorism" after being arrested in Jordan in December 1999. He had also supplied fake passports to militants. Kamel was sentenced to eight years, but was freed after four for good behaviour. He reportedly arrived in Montreal on Jan. 29. Kamel has a wife and son here. "Given the conviction in France and his previous involvement with terrorist activity, including close associations with a terrorist organization linked to al Qaeda and linked as well to Ahmed Rassam ... it’s very, very disturbing to think Kamel is back in the country," says MacKay, the Tories’ deputy leader and public safety critic. Ressam is better known as the Millennium Bomber. The former Montrealer was caught trying to smuggle a bomb into the United States in 1999 that was to be used to attack Los Angeles International Airport.
Kamel is associated with GIA, which is the French acronym for the Algerian Armed Islamic Group. MacKay thinks Canada should be doing "everything we can" to send Kamel back to his native Algeria. While he didn’t have any information on the matter, MacKay said he "hoped" that France had informed Canada about Kamel and that CSIS is monitoring the man’s whereabouts. "This is the type of individual who should be of real concern to Canadian officials at Immigration and CSIS and poses a real threat to Canadians," he says.
A spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, who is also in charge of public security, wouldn’t say much other than the federal government was aware of Kamel’s return. "Certainly this gentleman is a Canadian citizen and we’re aware of his arrest and conviction in France, but we don’t comment on any individual or operational matters around persons of interest," Alex Swann told The Canadian Press. "He is a citizen and he has the right to return to Canada."
Posted by: Dan Darling 2/27/2005
"Danger Up North: Canada’s welcome mat for terrorists."
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al-Qanada an inviting haven of longstanding for muslim terrorists???
Shock! Surprise! Horror! Astonishment!
"Danger Up North: Canada’s welcome mat for terrorists."
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al-Qanada an inviting haven of longstanding for muslim terrorists???
Shock! Surprise! Horror! Astonishment!
"Danger Up North: Canada’s welcome mat for terrorists."
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al-Qanada an inviting haven of longstanding for muslim terrorists???
Shock! Surprise! Horror! Astonishment!
I believe pissing on the carpet is the preferred metaphor for Canucklehead transgressions.
And people wonder why there is a "Brain Drain" up North...The smart ones head South...I honestly don't know why my family stays up there?
MD
The Capitol Hill staffer, who spoke anonymously, added: "Canada has stepped up their visa application procedures, but there are huge populations of people they have let in under refugee and asylum status and as immigrants who may be of concern. They are changing their laws to allow them to deport those people. But increasing that effort and deporting those people is something the United States would encourage."
Harvey Kushner, author of the hair-raising counterterrorism best-seller Holy War on the Home Front, is less sanguine. "It's quite disturbing that Canada's immigration policies have let this situation fester and grow," he says. "We do not have an electrified fence. When you have a neighbor who is not on the same page, it's indeed troublesome."
What can America do about all this? Pressing the Canadians to tighten up may require constant engagement. Amplifying the calls of Canada's Tories for stricter immigration and easier deportation would help. For starters, President Bush should broach border security when he meets his North American counterparts in Mexico on March 23.
The warm U.S.-Canadian relationship, illustrated by our 3,145-mile unprotected boundary, cooled somewhat when Ottawa recently refused to help Washington develop defenses against incoming nuclear-tipped missiles. But that modest dispute will pale beside the northward-flowing rancor that will erupt if a terrorist attack kills innocent Americans, and U.S. officials discover that the butchers slipped past complacent Canadians.
It is fairgame when you let in terrorists which because of the open border, virtually has unlimited access to inflicting terrors on your neighbour.
You don't want to wake up one day to find yourself you need a visa, body search, and 3 hour interrogation just to have a trip to Buffalo for the morning, eh?
For that to happen the terrorists would need to slip past Usian border officials . Seems to me that has already happened . Perhaps more than once . And they didn't come from Canada . The one that did got caught .
Does anyone really believe either the RCMP or CSIS would publicly announce to anyone , especially a suspect , what they are interested in ?
Since when is it an open border ? Try walking across some time. Either way .
Out West, it's remarkably easy to do. There isn't even a fence.
The thing is, Canada could secure its borders remarkably easily. The only way into the country is by ship or plane. If Canada takes care of those entry points, the USA would not have to worry about its northern border.
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