See the photo posted in #47. This wasn't just some isolated stuff gathered in a box.
But if you really want to understand what the police did here, check out this story:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1149285034044&call_pageid=976163513378&col=969048863474
There is MUCH more information in this story by reporter MICHELLE SHEPHARD filed at 1AM YESTERDAY morning. It seems she had foreknowledge of this bust and kept her mouth shut. No way she wrote this well researched story in a couple hours. Kudos to her.
It also points out the absolute need for LE to have the tools to discover these terrorists before they strike. Let's hope that the politicians, both Canadian and American, continue to give them the tools, and that judges don't take them away.
According to that article, the reason they were seeking to build a bomb and blow up buildings was beacause they were angry at muslims being profiled as liable to build bombs and blow up buildings.