[Diogenesis]

“Anybody that aided, facilitated or participated in this terrorist event will be arrested and prosecuted in court.”

This is such BS. Are we at war, or not?
Americans, Candians, and Iraqis are waiting for some public
hangings to show that the governments actually take this war seriously.

[fanfan]

Canada ping!

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this ping list.

[Clive]

It is interesting that the charges were laid in Peel Region at the west end of the GTA even though the arrests were made across the GTA and the detention facility in Durham Region at the east end of the GTA.

It has been over 25 years but the conventional wisdom then was "the Crown at Peel doesn't deal". The story went that when a defence counsel would ask the Crown what it would accept, the reply was usually "I will accept a plea of guilty".

I explicitly asked the supervising Crown whether that meant more trials and fewer convictions and he told me "no". "We get the same percentage of guilty pleas and the same rate of convictions as other urban jurisdictions."

I am not currently au courant with the Peel Crown but my experience is that institutional practices such as this tend to persist.

Just speculation. Is there anyone here currently familiar with current Peel Region practice?

[caveat emptor]

The arrests were made Friday and Saturday after the group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate from undercover Mounties in a sting operation, the Toronto Star reported.

Any reliable reports of this canard yet?

[Lion in Winter]

PING!!!

NOTE THE WORD BOSNIA!!!!!!

[Lion in Winter]

"A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators are looking for connections between the 17 detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants in custody in the United States, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark, Great Britain and Sweden."

Hey, clinton's pals in BOSNIA are mentioned!!