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TERRORISTS WIN: DEODORANT BANNED FROM AIRPLANES by Ann Coulter AnnCoulter.com August 16, 2006 Last week, British authorities arrested 24 members of a terrorist cell plotting to blow up about a dozen U.S.-bound planes simultaneously. As a result of those arrests, we learned: 1) Nothing being done by airport security since 9/11 would prevent a bomb from being brought onto an airplane; and 2) This terrorist plot — like all other terrorist plots — was stopped by ethnic profiling. Last week marked the first official admission that everything government airport screeners have been doing until now is completely pointless —...

Homegrown terror Toronto Sun Tuesday, August 15, 2006 By SALIM MANSUR The October Crisis of 1970 has seemingly faded from the collective memory of Canadians and its lesson forgotten by the once mighty Liberal party and its present leadership aspirants. But the lesson of that history has acquired great relevance in our post-9/11 world. Let us briefly recall the events of nearly 36 years ago. On Oct. 5, 1970, members of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) kidnapped James Cross, the British trade commissioner, in Montreal. Five days later, Pierre Laporte, Quebec’s minister of labour in Robert Bourassa’s...

Terror message prompted authorities to act fast Ian MacLeod and Steven Shukor CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Saturday, August 12, 2006 LONDON -- A message intercepted from Pakistan this week -- "Do your attacks now" convinced British officials to urgently arrest 24 Britons allegedly planning suicide bombing missions aboard up to 10 U.S.-bound airliners, say security intelligence and British government officials. The message, intercepted and decoded by U.S. intelligence, is one of several pieces of information that indicate a deepening Pakistani connection to the suspected plot. The Pakistan government on Friday named Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani origin...

Guns, jihad books found in Ottawa home of accused terrorist Ian MacLeod in Ottawa and and Sarah Knapton in London CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen; with files from Central News agency, London. Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Police discovered guns, ammunition, electrical components and books on terrorism and jihad during a raid on the Ottawa home of accused terrorist Momin Khawaja, a British court was told Tuesday. The prosecution evidence emerged at the London trial of seven British men charged with conspiring to bomb sites in and around London, including nightclubs, trains and a major shopping centre. British authorities allege...

Mounties had mole in alleged terror cell Exclusive: Law prohibits publication of prominent member of Muslim community Toronto red Star Jul. 13, 2006. 05:23 AM MICHELLE SHEPHARD STAFF REPORTER A well-known member of Toronto's Muslim community worked as a police agent to infiltrate an alleged terrorism cell that police say was planning attacks in Canada, the Toronto Star has learned. Although his identity is now known within the community and also to some of the 17 terrorism suspects arrested June 2, his name cannot be published due to Canadian laws. Sources say the man worked for the Canadian Security...

Making of a zealot'The first time I saw an al-Qaeda video, I was ready to go' Stewart Bell National Post Friday, June 30, 2006 CREDIT: Peter Redman, National Post Shaheed, a Torontonian of Acadian and aboriginal ancestry formerly known as Daniel Sonier, says he was targeted by extremists seeking to sway him to their views. He has since rejected those views. His name used to be Daniel Sonier, but that was when he was a troubled Scarborough teenager with dreams of becoming a rap star. Now he is Shaheed. In Arabic, it means martyr. It is the name the...

FBI probes Toronto tie to foreign terror cells Toronto Globe and Mail Saturday, June 24, 2006 PAUL KORING , COLIN FREEZE and DOUG SAUNDERS WASHINGTON, TORONTO, LONDON -- Counterterrorism agents are probing links between the foiled plot in Toronto and Islamic extremists in other countries, Robert Mueller, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, said yesterday. "We are investigating possible ties between the Toronto suspects and terrorist cells around the world," Mr. Mueller said in a speech in Cleveland, Ohio, that gave the most explicit confirmation to date of international co-operation surrounding the Toronto cell. The thwarting of an alleged...

Warrant targets U.K. Suspect Police sought bombs in raid, search papers say Joseph Brean and Stewart Bell National Post Monday, June 12, 2006 Police were looking for chemicals and improvised explosive devices when they raided several addresses in Britain used by a man being questioned about his alleged ties to a Toronto terror plot, the National Post has learned. A copy of the search warrant used by British police in their investigation of Aabid Khan, 21, who was arrested in the U.K. four days after the arrests in Toronto, shows authorities suspect him of terrorist involvement. It authorizes police...

Dangerous disconnect Terrorism arrests should prompt complete rethink of immigration policy By Licia Corbella Calgary Sun June 11, 2006 Do multiculturalism and political correctness threaten Canada? Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar has no doubt they do. "Multiculturalism takes away our complete undivided loyalties to this country," explains Kanwar, a criminologist, and professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary. "Multiculturalism has been bad for unity in Canada. It ghettoizes people, makes them believe, wrongly, that isolating themselves and not adapting to their new society is OK. It is not," says Kanwar, a devout Muslim. "And political correctness threatens us because...

Fooling ourselves into feeling safe David Frum National Post Saturday, June 10, 2006 A little past midnight in the early morning of Sept. 9, 2001, a Maryland state trooper spotted a car driving at more than 90 miles an hour on I-95, the busy interstate that connects Washington to New York and Boston. The driver was Ziad Jarrah, shortly to become world famous as the lead hijacker of United Flight 93, the plane that crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania. Jarrah was the only member of the Flight 93 hijack squad who knew how to fly a plane: Without...

The Toronto Star's self-imposed blindness Robert Fulford National Post Thursday, June 08, 2006 June, 2006, will always be remembered for the arrest of 17 suspected terrorists in Ontario. But we may also recall it as the time when Antonia Zerbisias accused Christie Blatchford of "hate speech." Zerbisias, who writes a column about media in the Toronto Star, reflects the current cliches of the left with superb accuracy. She writes with a certain angry vigour, particularly when dealing with anyone who says a kind word about the U.S. government. But candid writing offends her if it comes from the other...

THE TERROR RAIDS RCMP foiled at least a dozen plotsin past two years, documents reveal JEFF SALLOT AND BRIAN LAGHI With a report from Jane Taber Globe and Mail Wednesday, June7, 2006 OTTAWA -- The RCMP has quietly broken up at least a dozen terrorist groups in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. "We have completed 12 disruptions of national-level terrorist groups across the country," the Mounties say in briefing notes prepared for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day. Disruptive tactics -- sometimes as simple as letting targets know they are under close...