Ottawa Bank Firebombing Was Just Beginning, Police Fear

CANADA.com (THE OTTAWA CITIZEN) ^ | June 19, 2010 | by Gary Dimmock, CanWest News Service

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "OTTAWA — The May 18 firebombing of an Ottawa bank was feared to be just the start of a "domestic terrorism" campaign launched by three anarchists bent on acts of destruction at the G20 summit in Toronto, with one of the accused firebombers stockpiling boxes of ammunition and gunpowder, the Ottawa Citizen has learned."

SNIPPET: "Ottawa Police Chief Vern White had publicly branded those who attacked the bank branch as terrorists days after the firebombing, which was filmed and posted online in a "catch-me-if-you-can" video by a group called FFFC-Ottawa.

The acronym stands for Fight for Freedom Coalition, according to the country's spy agency. In its online statement, the group threatened to be present at the Toronto summit.

The police arrested Claude Frederic Haridge, 50, Friday. Haridge, an engineer, has been building circuit boards since he was 14, when he used to salvage parts from the garbage and cart them home."

SNIPPET: "Roger Clement, 58, was also arrested in connection with the firebombing and faces arson charges. Clement is a retired public servant, whose last job was at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)."

SNIPPET: "A third man in his early 30s has also been picked up. His name is Matthew Morgan-Brown, of Ottawa. He is a well known activist. He was arrested before the 2007 Montebello summit and charged with assaulting police. He was also arrested in 2004 for vandalizing downtown buildings during an antiwar protest."

[Squawk 8888]

My bad- the only Citizen articles I’ve read were via the National Post. Chalk it up to “selection bias”.