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Mike

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17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Toronto
Jun 03 11:09 AM US/Eastern
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By BETH DUFF-BROWN
Associated Press Writer

TORONTO

Seventeen Canadian residents were in custody Saturday on terrorism- related charges, including plots to use explosives in attacks on Canadian soil, authorities said.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth and foiled plans for terrorist attacks against targets in southern Ontario.

Officials showed evidence of bomb making materials, a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms and what appears to be a door with bullet holes in it at a news conference Saturday morning.

"This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices," said assistant Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioner Mike McDonell said.

McDonell said that is three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The arrests were made Friday, with some 400 officers involved.

McDonell said the suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together.

"The men arrested yesterday are Canadian residents from a variety of backgrounds. For various reasons they appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaida," said Luc Portelance, the assistant director of operations with CSIS _ Canada's spy agency.

Heavily armed police officers ringed the Durham Regional Police Station in the city of Pickering, just east of Toronto, as the suspects were brought in late Friday night in unmarked cars which were drove into an underground garage.

The Toronto Star reported Saturday that Canadian youths in their teens and 20s, upset at the treatment of Muslims worldwide, were among those arrested.

The newspaper said they had trained at a camp north of Toronto and had plotted to attack CSIS's downtown office near the CN Tower, among other targets.

Melisa Leclerc, a spokeswoman for the federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, had no comment on the arrests.

In March 2004, Ottawa software developer Mohammad Momin Khawaja became the first Canadian charged under the country's Anti-Terrorism Act for alleged activities in Ottawa and London. Khawaja was also named, but not charged, in British for playing a role in a foiled bomb plot. He is being held in an Ottawa detention center, awaiting trial.

The Canadian anti-terrorism law was passed swiftly following the Sept. 11 assaults, particularly after Osama bin-Laden's named Canada one of five so-called Christian nations that should be targeted for acts of terror. The others, reaffirmed in 2004 by his al-Qaida network, were the United States, Britain, Spain and Australian, all of which have been victims of terrorist attacks.

The anti-terrorism law permits the government to brand individuals and organizations as terrorists and gives police the power to make preventive arrests of people suspected of planning a terrorist attack.

Though many view Canada as an unassuming neutral nation that has skirted terrorist attacks, it has suffered its share of aggression, including the 1985 Air India bombing, in which 329 people were killed, most of them Canadian citizens.

Intelligence officials believe at least 50 terror groups now have some presence in the North American nation and have long complained that the country's immigration laws and border security are too weak to weed out potential terrorists.
 
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Intelligence officials believe at least 50 terror groups now have some presence in the North American nation and have long complained that the country's immigration laws and border security are too weak to weed out potential terrorists.

I'm glad to see Canada is actually working on this problem. A lot of times when I see one of those sheetwearers driving (sometimes with the wife and 5 kids all living in the truck) one of those Trans-X trucks hauling beef south, I wonder which of those 50 groups he belongs to :???: .......
 
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Canada Suspect Planned to Storm Parliament, Behead Prime Minister
Tuesday, June 06, 2006




BRAMPTON, Ontario — One of the members of an alleged terror cell in Canada plotted to behead the prime minister, according to charges released Tuesday.

Steven Vikash Chand allegedly plotted to attack Canada's parliament, including taking political hostages and beheading Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to the details released Tuesday.

Authorities said Chand's plans were part of a larger plot to use three tons of explosives rigged with cell phone detonators in a terror campaign across the country to secure the release of Muslim prisoners from Canadian and Afghan prisons and demand the removal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan.

Chand, 25, was one of 17 suspects who were led into the court in groups handcuffed at the wrist for what amounted to a brief court appearance. Charges were read against Chand and one other suspect as family members listened intently from the first three rows of seating.

"There's an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada," attorney Gary Batasar said. "It's a very serious allegation. My client has said nothing about that."

Batasar spoke outside the courthouse, where bail hearings for 10 of the 17 suspects were postponed. He said the charges were based on fear-mongering by government officials.

"It appears to me that whether you're in Ottawa or Toronto or Crawford, Texas, or Washington, D.C., what is wanting to be instilled in the public is fear," he said.

The Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton, a small city just west of Toronto, said Monday the suspects faced charges including participating in a terrorist group, importing weapons and planning a bombing.

Police expect more arrests and intelligence officers are probing possible ties between the Canadian suspects — 12 men and five teenagers — and Islamic terror cells in six nations, including the United States.

"We've by no means finished this investigation," Mike McDonell, deputy commissioner for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told the AP. "In fact, you might look at it that, really, we're just starting with the arrests. We have a responsibility to follow every lead."

McDonell said Monday that there are "foreign connections," but he would not elaborate.

A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators were looking for connections between those detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants held in the United States, Britain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark and Sweden.

U.S. authorities have established that two men from Georgia who were charged this year in a terrorism case had been in contact with some of the Canadian suspects via computer, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

The U.S. Border Patrol put agents on high alert along the 4,000-mile border and stepped up inspections of traffic from Canada.

A Muslim leader who knew the oldest suspect, 43-year-old Qayyum Abdul Jamal, told The Associated Press that his sermons at a local mosque were "filled with hate" against Canada.

Canadian police say there is no evidence the suspect group had ties to Al Qaeda, but describe its members as sympathetic to jihadist ideology. Officials are concerned that many of the 17 suspects were about 20 years old and had been radicalized in a short amount of time.

Officials announced Saturday that the suspects were arrested after the group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate, which can be mixed with fuel oil to make a powerful explosive. One-third that amount was used in the deadly bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.

"It came to a point where our concern for the safety and security of the public far outweighed our appetite for collecting evidence," said McDonell, the RCMP deputy commissioner.

Some people who know the suspects said they were astonished by the arrests.

But Faheem Bukhari, a director of the Mississauga Muslim Community Center, said Jamal, the oldest suspect, gave hateful, intolerant sermons to young Muslims at a storefront mosque in Mississauga, a city near Toronto where six of the suspects lived.

"These youth were very fun-loving guys, soccer-loving guys, and then all of sudden they were not associating with guys they used to," Bukhari said, referring to the younger suspects.

"People around him knew he was very extreme," Bukhari said, adding that Jamal once told "the audience that the Canadian Forces were going to Afghanistan to rape women."

Canada has about 2,300 soldiers in southern Afghanistan to bolster Afghan reconstruction and combat Taliban militants.

The adult suspects all are charged with one count of participating in a terrorist group.

Three of them — Fahim Ahmad, 21, Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24 — also are charged with importing weapons and ammunition for the purpose of terrorist activity.

Nine face charges of receiving training from a terrorist group, while four are charged with providing training. Six are charged with intending to cause an explosion that could cause serious bodily harm or death.

No information was released on the five teenagers due to privacy laws that protect minors.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Yup we protect our young offenders even if they are terrorists...got to get Mr.Harper on top of that,maybe after this info.it may make it to top of list!
Anyway I'm proad our government got them before it went to far,the thing is we hear that Canada is the next target,truth or media hype I'm not sure!
 

DaleK

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Of course now they're talking about a hurried increase on regulations for buying fertilizer. Already need a license to be able to buy a jug of Roundup, now I'll need one to buy a bag of triple 19
 

Silver

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What I'd like to know is.... why they'd want to get their hands dirty on a politician??? :shock:
Seriously though, I heard on the news the other day that Canada is second in the world for the number of active terrorist groups within its borders. I hope they continue routing them out, and I hope the new anti-terror laws work they way they are intended. This will be their first test.
 

RoperAB

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You know the liberals were making fun of Prime Minister Harper last week because he was riding in a suburban with body gaurds like President Bush does.
Making fun of him for his American style security. :roll:
I hope this wakes up the Liberals back east and the Liberals in the BC lower mainland :roll:
 

RoperAB

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The CBC is normally very left wing. LOLs I guess this is changing a bit since they have found out that these guys were planning on blowing them up!
Last night I watched the CBC do a show called The Enemy Within. It was about multiculturalism and the failure of it in Holland and Great Briton.
 

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