[Tunehead54]

U.S. police said many of the suspected al-Qaida terrorists were nabbed through the use of the state-of-the-art computer software program Promis.

The system interfaces with any database and can provide information on credit card, banking, pension, tax, criminal and immigration records.

Oh well ... so much for privacy. Sigh.

[BluH2o]

I was in Toronto last month ... lot of Pakistanies per capita in the city. Found myself doing a little
racial profiling ... screw the PC crowd.

[blam]

" Meanwhile, Peel police have arrested a Toronto man who allegedly assaulted an elderly man and flight stewardess on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong on Thursday."

Does anyone know what became of those detained/arrested last week that were coming in from the Phillipines? I've been expecting to see some Islamic Asian terrorists slipping into the country now that we are all concentrating on the 'mid-easterner' types.

[grimalkin]

I've heard a few Toronto denizens claim that there couldn't possibly be a problem with terrorists in their city... let alone, Canada. So much for that delusion.

[gumbo]

a Parkdale refugee claimant who is alleged to be a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden

You all might be interested in the name of the town - "Parkdale."

Remember the Vassar expert, Don Foster, thought the writer of the anthrax letters may have had a Canadian connection.