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Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson airport Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state. Khadr is the eldest daughter of a family that has...

Abdullah Khadr at large: Brothers were caught in Afghanistan, father is wanted for aiding Osama bin Laden The federal government released secret intelligence documents yesterday revealing that an al-Qaeda training camp in eastern Afghanistan was under the command of a Scarborough man whose two brothers are captives in the war on terrorism. Abdullah Khadr, 22, is described in a Privy Council Office intelligence report as a suspected al-Qaeda member who is thought to have "commanded an extremist training camp in Lowgar Province in Afghanistan." He is the fourth member of the Khadr family to come to the attention of Canadian...

Do you remember Aesop's fable of the log and the stork? It goes like this: There was once a pond ruled by a log who never did or said anything. The frogs in the pond became disgusted with their old king's inactivity and so prayed to Zeus to send them a more energetic ruler. Zeus laughed at them and sent them a new king -- a stork, who promptly ate all the frogs up. Paul Martin's reaction to Jean Chrétien's farewell Throne Speech gives all us frogs fair warning: Canada's would-be new King Stork will be no improvement over old...

I see my colleague Paul Wells has compared Jean Chrétien to Spider-Man. As a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, Canada's Prime Minister isn't especially friendly to our immediate neighbour, but that's because, like Peter Parker, he believes that "wid da great power come da great responsibility." Traditionally, M. Chrétien then spurts his webbing all over himself, but evidently in this instance he also shot a few strands over Paul's typing fingers, judging from the coherence of what followed. Just to clarify: Most of us "war hawks" don't have a problem with the Canadian government attempting to identify the "root causes," only with...

I sent an email to the Canadian Embassy (webmaster@canadianembassy.org ) to let them know how I feel about the comments made by Jean Chrétie and this is the reply that I got.

As a Canadian citizen, I would like to offer my sincere apologies to the American people for the recent remarks made by the ignoramus running the show up here. A collective cringe rippled through the Great Not-So-White North when Prime Minister Jean Chrétien mused aloud to a reporter in Spain last week that Canada may offer sanctuary to thirteen Palestinian terrorists who had been involved in the standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It's no wonder an Ipsos-Reid poll finds that more than three-quarters of Americans believe potential terrorists have slipped into the US through Canada. Our...