Posted on 07/08/2005 11:42:01 AM PDT by Levante
Yesterday's bombings in London, coupled with the attacks on the United States, Spain and Australia (through the Bali nightclub bombings), may increase the likelihood of Canada becoming a target for terror.
Although it is not yet proved that an al-Qaeda group was responsible for yesterday's destruction, Canada is now one of a dwindling number of nations named as a target by Osama bin Laden that has not been directly hit.
"Human targets sorted by level of importance," reads a list in the al-Battar Military Manual, a training manual masterminded by Saif al-Adel, one of al-Qaeda's most senior leaders, and distributed to supporters over the Internet.
Jewish targets top the list. Then, in a separate category called "the Christians," the manual states: "The grades of importance are as follows: 1. Americans, 2. British, 3. Spaniards, 4. Australians, 5. Canadians, 6. Italians."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Every other "important" country has been bombed or attacked by these hoodlums. Looks like Canada wants in on the action to be part of the "important" countries.
So far, the US is the only one which has fought back in response to an attack.
Canada has nothing to worry about:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1439046/posts
As long as they lowcrawl and don't complain, they may be able to stay FOO...Friends Of Osama.
The National Post didn't pay attention to the news. Some organization claiming to be "The Secret Organization of Al-Qaeda In Europe" claimed responsibility. Al-Qaeda is in over 100 countries worldwide, including Canada. I hate to say it, but it will be a matter of time unless Canada steps up their efforts to limit or eliminate the threat altogether. This is the reality of today.
And you live too close to Canada --- however, the larger cities would be the targets, so keep ranching, Big Sky Rancher.
Largest city nearest me is Regina, Saskatchewan, the provincial capitol, it has a population of about 250,000, and it's a melting pot of various minorities. It's about 2 hours north of here. CFB (Canadian Forces Base) Moose Jaw is 40 miles west of there.
I will say this though, if anyone of Middle Eastern ethnicity came across the border, it would send up red flags at the border since the minority population of this county is less than 1%, which is mostly Native American, and a handful of African Americans. Not a day goes by where I see 3 or more border patrol outfits on the roads next to the farm here. There are 20 BP agents permanently stationed here since 9/11. Before 9/11, there was only 2. They had to build a bigger office to accomodate them all.
Absolutely. I may have lost count, but last I heard they picked up 4 Iraqi nationals at the Mexican border entering the US. Lord knows how many they haven't caught.
Didn't Canada send a contingent of troops to Afghanistan, before Iraq even happened? Seems to me that all the liberals in the Great White North have forgotten this as they say "We're safe, we didn't go to Iraq". I have a feeling that they are in for a big shock, as the terrorists don't have such short memories, and they do hold a grudge. Couple that with the fact that Canada is wide open (more so than even the US and Britain), and easily accessible by those who would do her harm, and you have a recipe for disaster.
"Strange how Canada was listed ahead of Italy, since Italy has troops in Iraq."
Only strange from the viewpoint of the MSM who views everything from the lens of Iraq. Afghanistan is just as important to the jihadist, even more so for most probably. Notably, these two countries are particularly worrying for Iran.
After the Madrid bombings the jihadists mentioned both Afstan and Iraq, the govt announced a pull out from Iraq. Little reported was another communique complaining about Spaniards on Muslim lands, Zapatero said he was pulling out of Afstan too, though he seems to have reneged on that.
One thing is probable abuot the London bombings- the perps won't be Afghani or Iraqi.
BTW, another example of lefty/MSM selective amnesia involved Norway. A Zawahiri tape mentioned Norway, the Norwegians were all shocked since they weren't in Iraq. They couldn't understand Afghanistan was the cause since like the Spanish they are informed the Afghanis appreciate their presence there.
Ping.
OBL war is against Christianity and Judaism.
Spain didn't.
AQ isn't dumb enough to mess with the militaristic POWERWHOS that is Canada.
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Canada is actually ramping up our commitment to Afghanistan ... not to Martin's credit though. I'm sure he'd rather us not be there.
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