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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.


TOPICS: Canada; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; canadaterror; gwot; jihad; jihadinamerica; jihadincanada; qlaeda; terrorism; terrorplot; terrorraid; waronterror; wot
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The terrorists are still plotting.
1 posted on 06/03/2006 12:42:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: Cindy

PING


2 posted on 06/03/2006 12:44:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion

Data mining bad.

/sar


3 posted on 06/03/2006 12:44:58 PM PDT by petercooper (Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
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To: petercooper

Just hang them now.


4 posted on 06/03/2006 12:47:51 PM PDT by jocko12
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To: FairOpinion

CAIR has been quiet for a few days


5 posted on 06/03/2006 12:48:41 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: petercooper

Exactly -- these latest arrests show the importance of being able to do wiretapping, listening in on phone conversations, monitor the computer use in the library, the internet, etc -- the stakes are too high.

The plot in the UK, was discovered with internet monitoring.

How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642743/posts


Only total idiots and those who do want to see thousands of innocents killed would want to deny us the basic, critical tools to protect our people.


6 posted on 06/03/2006 12:49:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion

Connecting the dots. We need to continue doing it and not worry about what the 'RATS think.


7 posted on 06/03/2006 12:52:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! America's Lynch Mob.)
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To: FairOpinion

If you are talking to terrorists we want to know why.


8 posted on 06/03/2006 12:52:58 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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To: FairOpinion

Just as long as we did not have to look into their library card check out history...I am cool with this! ;)


9 posted on 06/03/2006 12:56:22 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: MHGinTN

Marvin, here's the first lead I've seen with names.


10 posted on 06/03/2006 12:58:41 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: backhoe

Have at it.....


Arrested and charged with offences under the Criminal Code of Canada are:

1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Robinstone Drive, Toronto, Ontario;
2. Zakaria Amara, 20, of Periwinkle Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario;
3. Asad Ansari, 21, of Rosehurst Drive, Mississauga, Ontario;
4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, of Lowville Heights, Mississauga, Ontario;
5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Montevideo Road, Mississauga, Ontario;
6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ontario;
7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston, Ontario;
8. Jahmaal James, 23, of Trudelle Street, Toronto, Ontario;
9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, of Stonehill Court, Toronto, Ontario;
10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, of Treverton Drive, Toronto, Ontario;
11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Robin Drive, Mississauga, Ontario;
12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario.


11 posted on 06/03/2006 1:01:01 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: xcamel

12 posted on 06/03/2006 1:02:18 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: FairOpinion

I agree with an earlier thread I saw you on-somethings up. Tampa, Toronto and London, coupled with another "Jenin" accusation is just too pat, IMHO..


13 posted on 06/03/2006 1:08:51 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Kerry-Mcarthy-Gore-Clinton-Feingold-Murtha- Pelosi-the true Axis of Evil...)
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To: FairOpinion

Maybe we need a fence on the northern border....


14 posted on 06/03/2006 1:15:54 PM PDT by Peter vE (Ceterum censeo: delenda est Carthago.)
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To: backhoe
Here somehting from AFPhys on another thread:

Excerpt from: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1149285034044&call_pageid=976163513378&col=969048863474 Four months after authorities began to fear that Canada might have its own homegrown terrorist cell, two Americans entered the picture. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi descent who had attended high school in Ontario, and Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, a student at Georgia Tech, boarded a Greyhound bus in Atlanta on March 6, 2005, and travelled to Toronto to meet "like-minded Islamic extremists," a U.S. court document alleges.At the time the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was watching the U.S. pair, Sadequee, according to court documents, was already on a no-fly list. But they crossed the border uneventfully and met three people associated with the group the Canadian authorities were watching. Ahmed later told authorities that the meetings were to discuss U.S. locations suitable for a terrorist strike, including oil refineries and military bases, court documents state. They also allegedly talked about how to dismantle the Global Positioning System in an effort to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic, and their plans to go to Pakistan to train at "terrorist-sponsored camps." (The FBI claims Ahmed "later travelled to Pakistan in an attempt to receive just such training.") Ahmed is now in U.S. custody, indicted in March for material support of terrorism. He has pleaded not guilty.Sadequee is accused of making false statements in connection with a terrorism investigation. He was arrested in April in Bangladesh and handed over to American authorities — a transfer his lawyer later characterized in court as being closer to a kidnapping than an arrest. Sadequee was flown to Alaska, according to U.S. news reports, and, having waived a preliminary hearing, consented to being transferred to Brooklyn, N.Y. He has been denied bail and is awaiting trial.

Digging has begun ...

15 posted on 06/03/2006 1:16:31 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: FairOpinion

Well let's hope that our authorities are not listening in to any suspicious phone calls or text messages. That would be just too upsetting to the ACLU types.


16 posted on 06/03/2006 1:19:14 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: FairOpinion
I wonder if the US catch had anything to do with monitored phone calls?
17 posted on 06/03/2006 1:32:32 PM PDT by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: Peter vE
Maybe we need a fence on the northern border....

Practically impossible, but I suspect you know this.

18 posted on 06/03/2006 1:33:47 PM PDT by Dosa26
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To: Mike Darancette

"If you are talking to terrorists we want to know why."

From all levels like these young bozo Islamofascists to leftwing elites in Congress or controlling our MSM.

The hate America liberal elites and their street thugs feared Able Danger, and our ability to track whom the terrorist communicate with.



19 posted on 06/03/2006 1:40:37 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: xcamel

Damn Scot/Irish terrorists again. :)

"Arrested and charged with offences under the Criminal Code of Canada are:

1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Robinstone Drive, Toronto, Ontario;
2. Zakaria Amara, 20, of Periwinkle Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario;
3. Asad Ansari, 21, of Rosehurst Drive, Mississauga, Ontario;
4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, of Lowville Heights, Mississauga, Ontario;
5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Montevideo Road, Mississauga, Ontario;
6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ontario;
7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston, Ontario;
8. Jahmaal James, 23, of Trudelle Street, Toronto, Ontario;
9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, of Stonehill Court, Toronto, Ontario;
10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, of Treverton Drive, Toronto, Ontario;
11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Robin Drive, Mississauga, Ontario;
12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario."


20 posted on 06/03/2006 1:42:48 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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