Posted on 10/21/2009 11:09:45 AM PDT by La Lydia
BRAMPTON -- The two scrawny terrorists are unloading bags labeled ammonium nitrate from the back of a delivery truck when one of them looks up and recoils in shock, while his partner backs into a wall and raises his hands in surrender. A four-member police tactical team dressed all in black descends, laying them spread-eagled on the floor of the warehouse and cuffing their hands behind their backs before one of the officers raises his thumb to say mission accomplished. The dramatic arrests of Saad Khalid and Saad Gaya, members of the "Toronto 18" terrorist group that was planning to detonate truck bombs in downtown Toronto, was captured on a video released on Tuesday by the court. The video is among dozens of Crown exhibits that form the case against Zakaria Amara, who admitted on Oct. 8 he was the leader of the bomb plot....
The Toronto 18 were homegrown al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists who attended a training camp north of Toronto and planned attacks in southern Ontario they hoped would force Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
"The eventual plan for which the group was training was an attack which would cripple infrastructure and involved attacking Parliament and blowing up truck bombs," reads part of Amara's guilty plea....
Amara's rambling instructions on planning the attack are interspersed with religious tracts such as, "God all mighty says in the Koran...instructing the faithful that when they meet a group of non-believers or when they are battling they should remember God a lot and that will keep them, God willing, being steadfast."
Amara, 24, pleaded to two counts of terrorism and is to be sentenced in January. Khalid, Gaya and Ali Dirie have also pleaded guilty and another man, Nishanthan Yogakrishnan, was convicted. Another six are awaiting trial...
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
So, wha’d’ya think? I'm thinking they each get “time served” and probation. It IS Canada.
I doubt that this would even happen, but, I have heard that Polar Bears are starving to death farther north. Maybe they could just take these guys up to the ice patch and turn them loose.
way to go, Mounties!!!!
Brampton Ontario is a little over 1 hour drive from NY / US Border, without traffic.
Also here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRT_DIDZ7EM
0:00-1:56 -- The RCMP built and exploded a bomb similar to the one that the Toronto 18 cell allegedly tried to build.
1:57-7:22 -- The RCMP caught members of the group unloading bags of ammonium nitrate.
7:23-8:07 -- Footage of one of the Toronto 18 members trying a remote detonator was also seized by investigators
8:08-9:12 -- An alternate view of the test explosion shows that the explosion would have done significant damage.
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