Canadian Terror Probe Expands to 7 Nations

AP/MyWay ^ | June 5, 2006 | BETH DUFF-BROWN and ROB GILLIES

[FairOpinion]

Clearly major attacks were planned all over.

And I think this is still only the tip of the iceberg.

[FairOpinion]

Is there anyone who still thinks we shouldn't monitor phone calls and e-mails of terrorist suspects?

[FairOpinion]

This map accompanied the article.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Some folks would just rather die than wake up.

[FairOpinion]

Mohammad Alam, President of the Toronto Islamic Foundation, speaks to police outside the Foundation's centre in Toronto, on Sunday, June 4, 2006, following a press conference. (AP Photo/CP,Derek Oliver)

[SandRat]

Heads up on this one!!!!

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. Expanding our frame of reference bump!

[FairOpinion]

Another map from the article -- note how close to NY State.

Map shows site of arrests and alleged training camp. (AP Graphic)

[Dog Gone]

Is there anyone who still thinks we shouldn't monitor phone calls and e-mails of terrorist suspects?

Is there anyone who thinks the Mexican border is the only one that matters?

Don't answer that question, I already know the answer.

[LeoWindhorse]

Jamal once told "the audience that the Canadian Forces were going to Afghanistan to rape women."

oh yes! I am quite sure the Canadian Forces would find the head-to-toe burkhas the poor moslem women are forced to wear
quite stimulating . And then there would be the added mystery
of never quite knowing in advance what exactly one could expect in uncovering such a surprise package.

I do so hope our northern brothers find some advantage to hanging Mr. Jamal up ,for hours on end , by his thumbs while
they convince him to reveal his secrets.

[FairOpinion]

Note the latest on the UK raid:

Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say


http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1791111,00.html



I just can't believe people -- they didn't find the chemical bomb/vest, so now they declare it never existed. Just like with Saddam's WMD.

I guess if you ever can't remember where you parked your car and can't find it, we can declare that it never existed.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Someone needs to get a quote on this from Ms. Pelosi, or Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Teddy the Swimmer, Hillary the Witch, John Kerry, or anyone of those Liberal idiots. According to that group of fools, we have no enemies other than George Bush.

[FairOpinion]

And this was already posted, but for context and to remind everyone, that if the chatrooms hadn't been monitored, we might not have been able to foil these attacks, see this article:

Plot began in chat room

So when a shadowy group of disaffected urban youth began talking in an Internet chat room in the fall of 2004 espousing anti-Western views, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening.

The spy agency, and an alphabet soup of other security agencies across the continent, closely monitor such sites, where talk may sometimes turn to buildings and bombs and bringing global jihad home to North America, to Canada.

Often it's just that — talk — but when CSIS began monitoring the sites allegedly used by some of the 17 men and youths arrested on terrorism-related charges in a sweeping series of raids across the GTA Friday evening, the Canadian spy agency heard enough to remain interested, and increased surveillance of the group.

[Fruitbat]

No information was released on the five young males arrested due to federal privacy laws that protect minors.

I'll step out here and say that they weren't Christians, Mormons, or Jews.

[Brilliant]

But you better not intercept the phone calls from these fine citizens.

[FairOpinion]

Not to mention that the two in the US, who had links with them were US citizens, and all but two of these jihadists were long term Canada residents and citizens.

Canada faces 'jihad generation'

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0606/p01s02-woam.html


The suspects all lived in Canada at the time of arrest; many are longtime residents and citizens. Like the perpetrators of last summer's London bombings, these young Muslims apparently became radicalized not in Al Qaeda training camps abroad but in suburban neighborhoods where they led relatively unremarkable lives.


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So it cannot be blamed on "world hunger and poverty".

[Fruitbat]

Is there anyone who thinks the Mexican border is the only one that matters?

At least Canada has some security where they're supposed to anyway. They also have a greater interest in securing them than Mexico does. More to lose.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for that link!

Related item:

Somebody woke up in Canada:

Take a good, hard look at what's going on here

[Lion in Winter]

ANd one of those seven other nations is BOSNIA... and it is NOT the SERBS they are after. It is clinton's and gen clark's pals the BOSNIAN MUSLIMS!!

[Lion in Winter]

ANd, they were not Serbians either!!