RCMP Behind Bomb Material [Now it's a sting?? Entrapment?!]

Toronto Star ^ | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Michelle Shepard and Isabel Teotonio

[canuck_conservative]

On CTV's Question Period, the Opposition MP's were starting to raise doubts about parts of this police operation, and the word "entrapment" was mentioned in connection with some of the youths.

Stay tuned, it ain't over yet folks ....

[Perdogg]

I am waiting for them to accuse Bush of something, just wait!!!

[Seruzawa]

Two way radios? Contraband? Is that the latest thing that will get you put on the watch list? How about people who purchase 72 hour emergency kits? Better watch them too.

[Gay State Conservative]

So how long will it be before the police involved are fired (or worse) and the prospective muslim terrorists get huge damages awards from some leftist judge?

[AngrySpud]

Okay, so what were they going to do with the three tons of fertilizer? House plants? Are these Muslims farmers, or do they operate a feed store?

[snarks_when_bored]

"We're farmers. We were going to lease some land next week to plant tomatoes and yellow squash."

[Bean Counter]

So now the quantity is up to "3 Tonnes". This morning it was 3000 lbs, now they say it is 6000 lbs. They still don't explain how these people came into possession of that much AN. I keep hearing that they "ordered it" and that the RCMP conducted the raid after the AN was "delivered".

Still too many missing and/or contradictory pieces here...

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Stay tuned, it ain't over yet folks ....

If the media finds out that any comms got intercepted, y'all are screwed. The claims about only needing 25 kg of fertilizer will be coming soon.... Your law enforcement did very well, and hats off to them. The allegations of torture, abuse, and entrapment are just beginning. Welcome to the party.

[AnnaZ]

Canada works on the metric system, hence "tonne", and not "ton". One tonne is 1000 kilograms (methinks around 2200 pounds[?]).

[fso301]

"It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack," said RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell. "If I can put this in context for you, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was completed with only one tonne of ammonium nitrate."

Remember in yesterdays Toronto Star how some of the guys were nabbed when crossing the border from the US into Canada because their license plate was entered as being involved with narcotics? I'm thinking even more about Tim McVeigh and his missing license plate.

[FatherofFive]

I am waiting for them to accuse Bush of something, just wait!!!

It will come out that these innocent young men were found out as part of the monitoring their international telephone calls to known terrorists. Bush’s fault.

[chemical_boy]

Every canadian article on the arrests mention three tonnes of fertilizer

[SAJ]

2204 and a fraction lbs. Cocoa and numerous other commodities are also traded in metric tons ('tonnes').

[Publius6961]

I can honestly say that up until the names were listed, I had assumed normal Canadians were involved.
That they all sound suspiciously like ROP sandmaggots makes all of this suddenly make sense.

This reminds me about the silliness of protecting terrorists with the same blanket as normal juveniles, by not releasing their names. These are not petty crimes we're dealing with here.

[BIGLOOK]

Ammonium nitrate is 34-0-0 (NPK ratio). Suppose we accept a 300#/acre nitrogen application for row crops, 6000# of ammonium nitrate is required for 6 acres.

So......where's their produce stand?

[livius]

Puhleeze.

If these"youths" could have gotten away with it, they would have. And many Canadians would have met a really nasty fate. Why not catch them before they pull it off?

[JohnBovenmyer]

On CTV's Question Period, the Opposition MP's were starting to raise doubts about parts of this police operation, and the word "entrapment" was mentioned in connection with some of the youths.

Watch Harper handle this and learn, GOP. Watch the Canadian libs fall even further in the polls as Harper debates when to call for an election to and win a real majority.

[conservative in nyc]

Which opposition MPs? Are the Liberals really stupid enough to turn this into an "entrapment" issue? I'd think most Canadians would be happy to hear that the Canadian authorities are closely monitoring terror cells and preventing terror attacks. What's the big deal? If the alleged perps didn't get the 3 tonnes of fertilizer from police sources, they would have purchased it somewhere else where their actions might not have been as easily monitored.

I can see the Dippers falling into the entrapment brier patch, though.

By the way, this Toronto Red Star story is being mentioned on one of NYC's all-news radio station.

[canuck_conservative]

QP had on Derek Lee (Liberal justice critic) and Joe Comartin (NDP justice critic).

BTW, QP will also be replayed tonite on CTV NewsNet, their all-news channel.