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COUNTERTERRROISM BLOG: "GROWING ISLAMIST TERROR THREAT IN CANADA"
by Jeffrey Imm
(June 3, 2006)
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/growing_islamist_terror_threat.php

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JIHADWATCH.org: "TERROR RAIDS IN CANADA, TOO"
(CBC NEWS)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/06/011653print.html

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Thanks to a Special Freeper for the Freepmail ping to this article:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2036354

"17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Toronto
Canada Says It Foiled Terrorist Attack With Arrest of 17 People 'Inspired by al-Qaida'"
By BETH DUFF-BROWN

TORONTO Jun 3, 2006 (AP)—

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""The men arrested yesterday are Canadian residents from a variety of backgrounds. For various reasons, they appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaida," said Luc Portelance, the assistant director of operations with CSIS Canada's spy agency.

However, he said, there did not appear to be any direct link to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

Officials showed evidence of bomb making materials including a cell phone-bomb detonator a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms and what appeared to be a door with bullet holes in it at a news conference Saturday."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The Toronto Star reported Saturday that Canadian youths in their teens and 20s, upset at the treatment of Muslims worldwide, were among those arrested."

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Thanks to FanFan for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642682/posts
"Bust nets suspected terrorists across GTA Canada: Greater Toronto Area)"
Toronto red-Star ^ | Jun. 2, 2006 | MICHELLE SHEPHARD AND STAN JOSEY
Posted on 06/02/2006 9:14:15 PM PDT by GMMAC

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "According to the Star's sources, the Canadian spy service CSIS has been monitoring the group since 2004, and an RCMP criminal investigation was launched last year.

Police have not said why they acted Friday night, and would not say how well-organized the group is, or whether it is armed.

“It is very serious,” a source who asked not to be named told Canadian Press. "These people had plans.”"

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Thanks to Abu Afak for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642835/posts
"Twelve held in Canada terror raid"
BBC News ^ | Saturday, 3 June 2006, 15:42 GMT 16:42 UK | BBC
Posted on 06/03/2006 9:47:10 AM PDT by Cinnamon

Last Updated: Saturday, 3 June 2006, 18:42 GMT 19:42 UK
UPDATED BBC TITLE: "Canada arrests 17 in terror raid"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Officials showed what they said was evidence of bomb-making materials, a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms and what appeared to be a door with bullet holes in it.

Police seized an array of bomb-making materials
The RCMP and other government security agencies, including intelligence and border security, have been conducting a lengthy investigation involving 400 people - the largest of its kind in Canada."

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Thanks to Mama Dearest for the ping to this article and snippet"
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/06/03/1613034-cp.html
Quote: "Snip: Three tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used fertilizer used to make explosives, were recovered by police, who say that's three times the amount used in the bombing of a government building in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.
"It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack," RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell told a news conference."

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Thanks to Fair Opinion for the ping to this thread.

NOTE: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642895/posts

Canada terror suspects may have had US contacts
Reuters ^ | June 3, 2006 | Reuters

Posted on 06/03/2006 12:42:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some members of a group of Canadians arrested on terror-related offenses may have been in contact with two U.S. suspects now in custody who were based in Georgia, the FBI said on Saturday.

"There is preliminary indication that some of the Canadian subjects may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgia," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in an e-mail.

Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested March 23 after a grand jury returned an indictment charging him with material support of terrorism. He has pleaded innocent and has not yet come to trial.

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, left Georgia after Ahmed's indictment but was later taken into custody in Bangladesh and returned to the United States, where he was charged in New York's federal court with lying to federal officials in an ongoing terrorism investigation.

Sadequee and Ahmed traveled to Canada on March 13, 2005, to meet with Islamic extremists, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement.

The two "stayed with an individual with whom they were conspiring concerning travel to terrorist camps, and met with three subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation and discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a possible terrorist strike," the statement said, citing the complaint against Sadequee.

U.S. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said on Saturday there were no plans to change the U.S. security posture following Saturday's arrests in Canada.

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