Canadian Highway to Terror
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 9/19/03 | Stephen Brown
Posted on 09/19/2003 12:47 AM PDT by kattracks
Canada's refugee system, long used by terrorists as a means of gaining access to North America, has once again shown why it poses a major security risk to the continent.
The latest Islamist miscreant to take advantage of this criminally lax system that makes Canada look like one of the biggest sucker nations in the world is Abderraouf Jdey, whose name appeared earlier this month in an FBI alert as a possible terrorist threat. Jdey first came to the attention of authorities on a videotape found in the home of Osama bin Laden's security chief in Afghanistan, recording a suicide message and promising to die in battle against the infidels. Originally from Tunisia, Jdey came to Canada in 1991 and filed a refugee claim and received Canadian citizenship in 1995.
Unknown to many people, when terrorist crackpots like Jdey arrive in Canada and say the magic word "refugee", then, like Ali Baba before his cave, the door opens wide to a relatively safe hideout and a room full of riches. Besides monthly welfare payments, the terrorist refugee claimant is instantly entitled to free health and dental care, housing and legal representation, thanks to Canadian taxpayers. But most importantly for a terrorist, once that claim has been made, it is almost impossible to have him removed him from the country.
The best proof of this is Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammed, a former Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist and convicted murderer. Mohammed attacked an Israeli airliner at the Athens airport in 1968, killing one person, and only served one year in jail, before he was released in an exchange. He lied his way into Canada in 1988 and filed a refugee claim that was rejected. However, the convicted terrorist is still here 15 years later, having filed more than 30 appeals. Mohammed currently runs a candy store in Ontario and is still appealing his case, which has cost the Canadian taxpayer about $3 million dollars so far. His deportation is postponed until he exhausts all legal avenues, which probably means never.
Mohammed is not an isolated case. Having a criminal record for terrorism, or other offenses, is no obstacle to staying in Canada. The National Post, a Canadian national newspaper, ran an article in 2001, in which it identified 17 al-Qaeda operatives, based in Canada, who had been convicted of terrorist offenses in other countries.
However, the most famous Canadian refugee claimant/terrorist was Ahmed Ressam...
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