Candian Terrorists Apprehended

[Malsua]

Since they've now captured at least 17 dirtbags who were planning attacks in Canada and the US, I'm starting this thread. Chances are that over time, we're going to find other links the connect to the US.

These dirtbags had collected around 6000 pounds of Ammonium Nitrate which is plenty enough to make a big bomb. The reports keep saying it's 3 times as much as used in OK city bombing, but I think they have it wrong. I thought there was like approx 5000 pounds used there.

At any rate, use this thread as the links are exposed.
-Mal


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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...d=968332188492

Bust nets suspected terrorists across GTA
Jun. 2, 2006. 11:56 PM
MICHELLE SHEPHARD AND STAN JOSEY
STAFF REPORTERS

Police from across the GTA, led by the RCMP's anti-terrorism task force, swooped down on as many as 12 locations Friday night to arrest members of what is being described as a homegrown terrorist cell. Police remained tight-lipped about the massive operation, but have scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. Saturday.

Shortly after the first arrests the suspects were driven to a heavily-guarded Pickering police station.
The station, on Brock Rd. in Pickering, was surrounded by a heavy ring of police security. A long line of unmarked police cars with suspects sat inside the security perimeter. About every 15 minutes or so another car would be admitted to the station's underground parking garage, where suspects entered the station for processing.

Heavily-armed members of the Durham region tactical unit were stationed at one-metre intervals around the station. Dozens of plainclothes officers, and uniformed RCMP, Durham and Toronto police were involved in the processing.

According to the Star's sources, the Canadian spy service CSIS has been monitoring the group since 2004, and an RCMP criminal investigation was launched last year.

Police have not said why they acted Friday night, and would not say how well-organized the group is, or whether it is armed.
“It is very serious,” a source who asked not to be named told Canadian Press. "These people had plans.”

While the intended target is unclear, the plan was to detonate an explosive device in Ontario, the source said.
“That’s the tool of choice for anybody who wants to cause damage.”
For full coverage, including the background of the group and how it came to police attention, see the Saturday Star and come back to thestar.com for updates throughout the day.

RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR

This officer is one of numerous heavily-armed police standing guard in front of the Durham Regional Police station at Kingston and Brock roads in Pickering on Friday evening. A joint forces operation brought suspects there for processing.

RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR

A joint forces operation brings terrorism suspects for processing at the Durham Regional Police station at Kingston and Brock roads in Pickering on Friday evening. -----------

[Malsua]

If there was any question about if these were Moos or unhappy white guys, this should answer it.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/world...4754-2940r.htm
Canadian arrests foil terror plot

By Beth Duff-Brown
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 4, 2006

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TORONTO -- Police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack in Canada by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by al Qaeda, who obtained three times the amount of explosives used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said yesterday.
The FBI said the Canadian suspects may have had "limited contact" with two men recently arrested on terrorism charges in Georgia.

About 400 regional police and federal agents participated in the arrests Friday and early yesterday -- the largest counterterrorism operation in Canada since a new law was passed after the September 11 attacks.
"These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism."

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 12 adult suspects, ages 19 to 43, and five suspects younger than 18 on terrorism charges, including plotting attacks with explosives on Canadian targets.

The suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together, police said.

The group had taken steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making materials, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said. He said this was three times the amount bombers used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, killing 168 persons and injuring more than 800.
"This group posed a real and serious threat," Mr. McDonell said. "It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks."

Officials displayed evidence of bomb-making materials, including white sacks of fertilizers, a red cell phone wired to what appeared to be an explosives detonator inside a black toolbox, a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms, flashlights and walkie-talkies. Officials also showed a flimsy white door riddled with bullet holes, apparently used for target practice.

Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations at the spy agency Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said the 17 suspects "appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda," but that investigators have yet to prove a link to the radical Islamist terror network.
The suspects live in either Toronto, Canada's financial capital and largest city, or the nearby cities of Mississauga and Kingston.

Rocco Galati, an attorney for two suspects from Mississauga, said Ahmad Ghany, 21, is a health sciences graduate from McMaster University in Hamilton. He was born in Canada, the son of a medical doctor who emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago.

Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, is a computer programmer who emigrated from Egypt 20 years ago with his father, now an engineer with Atomic Energy of Canada, the lawyer said.

Five of the suspects were led in handcuffs yesterday to the Ontario Court of Justice, which was surrounded by police sharpshooters and bomb-sniffing dogs. A judge told the men not to communicate with one another and set their first bail hearing for Tuesday.

Aly Hindy, an imam of an Islamic center that houses a school and a mosque and has been monitored by security agencies for years, said he knows nine of the suspects and that Muslims repeatedly were being falsely accused.

"We are the ones always accused. Somebody fakes a document and they are an international terrorist forging documents for al Qaeda," he said outside the court yesterday.

Tight security required visitors to the court to remove their shoes to pass through three checkpoints guarded by police carrying assault rifles and submachine guns.

According to a report in the Toronto Star yesterday citing unidentified police sources, the suspects attended a terrorist training camp north of Toronto and had plotted to attack the Canadian spy agency's downtown Toronto office, among other targets in Ontario.

Other reports suggested the group had videotaped the CN Tower, one of the world's tallest structures, and the Toronto subway, but officials refused to specify the intended targets.

FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko in Washington said a connection could exist between the Canadian suspects and a Georgia Tech student and another American who had traveled to Canada last year to meet with Islamic extremists to discuss locations for a terrorist strike.

Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, U.S. citizens who grew up in the Atlanta area, were arrested in March.

There have been no al Qaeda-type attacks in Canada, although security services long have worried about risks and the United States has urged more vigilance on the long border the two countries share.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke with his Canadian counterpart, Stockwell Day, early yesterday, homeland security spokesman Russ Knocke told the Reuters news agency.

The charges came under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act. It was passed shortly after the September 11 attacks -- and after terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named Canada as one of five "Christian" nations that should be targeted for terror attacks. The others are the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia.

Mr. Portelance said it was Canada's largest counterterrorism operation since the adoption of the act and that more arrests were possible.

The adult suspects from Toronto are Steven Vikash Chand, alias Abdul Shakur, 25; Fahim Ahmad, 21; Jahmaal James, 23; and Asin Mohamed Durrani, 19. Those from Mississauga are Ghany; Abdelhaleen; Zakaria Amara, 20; Asad Ansari, 21; Saad Khalid, 19; and Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43.
Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, are from Kingston.

[Sean Osborne]

This entire action had its genesis in the arrest of a Georgia Tech student AND the October 2005 arrests of YOUNIS TSOULI and his chorts in London, England AND you've heard all ofthis previously in my posts to this forum -including my OWN identification of Mirsad Bektasevic as the Islamist internet nom-de-guerre "MAXIMUS"




Summary of Canadian Arrests – June 2, 2006

Individuals Arrested

·On Friday, June 2, 2006, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested 12 male adults and five youths on terrorism-related charges.

·According to the RCMP, the arrested individuals are

o1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Robinstone Drive, Toronto, Ontario

o2. Zakaria Amara, 20, of Periwinkle Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario

o3. Asad Ansari, 21, of Rosehurst Drive, Mississauga, Ontario>>

o4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, of Lowville Heights, Mississauga, Ontario

o5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Montevideo Road, Mississauga, Ontario

o6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ontariol

o7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, lace w:st="on">Kingston, Ontariolace

o8. Jahmaal James, 23, of Trudelle Street, Toronto, Ontario

o9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, of Stonehill Court, Toronto, Ontario

o10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, of Treverton Drive, Toronto, Ontario

o11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Robin Drive, Mississauga, Ontario

o12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario.

·According to Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations for CSIS, the detained suspects are all males, Canadian residents “from a variety of backgrounds” and followers of a “violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda.”

oSpeaking before the Canadian Senate on Monday, CSIS deputy director Jack Hooper had warned: “We are seeing phenomena in Canada such as the emergence of homegrown second- and third-generation terrorists. These are people who may have immigrated to Canada at an early age who become radicalized while in Canada. They are virtually indistinguishable from other youth. They blend into our society very well, they speak our language and they appear to be, for all intents and purposes, well assimilated.” He added, “All the circumstances that led to the London transit bombing…are resident here and now in Canadalace.”

Acquisition of Explosives and Weapons

·According to RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell, “This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices. To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate.”

·According to the RCMP, the men also acquired weapons.

oMcDonell noted: “[the group] had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks…Our investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of explosive devices and attacks being carried out.”

Attended Training Camp in Canada

·Open sources report the men traveled to a training camp in Canada andmade propaganda videos.

Possible Targets


·RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell stated, “[these] individuals…were planning to commit a series of terrorist attacks against solely Canadian targets in southern Ontariol.”

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·Media reports state that “the suspects allegedly planned to target the spy service because many of them had encountered agents early in the investigation, when they were interviewed and put under surveillance. They also were allegedly angered by media reports accusing CSIS of racial profiling of Muslims.”

·Further,some of the group's members had even been spotted taking notes around the building, and at least one had reportedly visited the basement.

oAccording to open source reporting, the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were also a possible target.

oAdditionally, press reports state that that the men had filmed around the Keele subway stop and beneath subway car seats.

oThe target list also reportedly included a “smattering of other high-profile, heavily populated areas.”


Role of the Internet



·According to open source reporting, the investigation began in 2004 when Canadian authorities tracked local teenagers on jihadist sites, “reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims.”

oThe men were “allegedly spurred on by images of conflict in Iraq and lace w:st="on">Afghanistanlace> and angered by what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims at home.”


2005 Arrest for Weapons Smuggling at the Peace Bridgelace, Link to One of the Suspects


·In August 2005, Fahim Ahmad, who was arrested in Friday’s raids, rented a car for Yasin Mohamed and Ali Dirie to go to the U.S.

·The licence plate was flagged for possible narcotics involvement so it could be pulled over upon its return to Canadal

oOn August 13, 2005, the CBSA pulled over and searched the white Buick.

·During the search, a customs officer discovered a loaded Highpoint .380 caliber handgun inside Mohamed’s waistband and ammunition inside his pockets.

·Officers later discovered two loaded handguns taped to Dirie’s inner thighs -a Millennium PT 19mm and a .380 Caliber Jennings. In his socks, they found a magazine for a semi-automatic handgun and several rounds of ammunition.

·After claiming they were buying the guns for their own “protection,” the men pleaded guilty in October 2005 and were given 2-year sentences.

oSt. Catharines Crown attorney Ron Brooks told the court, “whether they were mules, whether they were going to use them for their own protection, which is all we have right now, we have nothing to indicate that they were going to be sold.”

oThe incident was reported in the media at the time.

See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/13/canada.weapons/index.html

Links to Georgia Arrests


·In March 2006, U.S. authorities indicted Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, a student at Georgia Tech, for providing material support to terrorists. In April 2006, Bangladeshi authorities arrested Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi descent who had attended high school in Ontario, and transferred him to U.S. custody for making false statements in connection with a terrorism investigation.

·According to court documents, Ahmed and Sadequee boarded a Greyhound bus in Atlanta on March 6, 2005 and traveled to ffice:smarttags" />lace w:st="on">Torontolace> to meet with three men who were the subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation. Court papers described these men as “like-minded Islamic extremists.”

·FBI spokesman Richard Kolko acknowledged that some suspects arrested in Canada “may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgial.”

oAhmed told authorities that “during some of these meetings, he, Sadequee and the others discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike, to include oil refineries and military bases.”

oThey also “plotted how to disable the Global Positioning System in an effort to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic” and discussed plans to go to Pakistan to train at “terrorist-sponsored camps.”

§The FBI claims Ahmed “later traveled to lace Pakistan in an attempt to receive just such training.”


More on Ahmed/Sadequee

·According to federal prosecutors, Ahmed, Sadequee and a third man traveled to “the mountains of Georgial to conduct military-style training exercises.”

·Federal prosecutors further allege that Ahmed and Sadequee traveled to Washington D.C. in April 2005 to make “casing videos” of the U.S. Capitol, Masonic Temple, World Bank and a fuel storage facility and were preparing to send the videos to “overseas brothers.”

oOpen sources report that the investigation of Ahmed and Sadequee was linked to the arrests of three men in October 2005 in Britain, where the police seized images Sadequee made on his trip to Washington along with computer images containing instructions for making car bombs and suicide bombing vests.



British Investigation Linked to Ahmed/Sadequee

·In October 2005, British authorities arrested Waseem Mughal, from Kent, and Younis Tsouli, from west London, both 22, and charged them with conspiracy to murder and to cause an explosion. A third man, 19 year old Tariq al-Daour, from west London, was held over fundraising offences under the Terrorism Act.

oMughal is accused of having a recipe for rocket propellants, guidance on causing an explosion, and a DVD entitled "Martyrdom Operations Vest.” He was also accused of having two pieces of paper in his bedroom - one with the words in Arabic “Welcome to Jihad” and the other “Hospital attack.”

oTsouli allegedly possessed a video showing how to make a car bomb and a video slides film showing a number of places in Washington DC.

§At the time, press sources reported the plotters may have been targeting the White House and Capitol complex using homemade bombs.

·Younis Tsouli was later identified in press reports as Irhabi007 (Terrorist 007).

oIrhabi007 played an active role on a number of Arabic and English-language jihadist websites and distributed audio and video clips of Al Qaeda’s leadership, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. One press report identified Irhabi007 as “the top jihadi expert on all things Internet-related.”

oOpen sources report that British officials found stolen credit card information at Tsouli’s home. They later found that the cards were used to pay American Internet providers on whose servers he had posted jihadi propaganda

oAccording to press reports, “Irhabi posted a 20-page message titled ‘Seminar on Hacking Websites,’ to the Ekhlas forum. It provided detailed information on the art of hacking, listing dozens of vulnerable Web sites to which one could upload shared media.”

§In July 2004, Irhabi007 hacked an FTP server operated by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department and transformed it into an Al Qaeda message board.

·He posted dozens of jihadist audio and video files so that others could freely download them.

§He also later hacked a server belonging to George Washington University.


British Investigation Linked to Bosnian Terror Plot

·In October 2005, Bosnian police arrested Mirsad Bektasevic, a 19-year-old Swedish citizen, and Cesur Abdulkadir, an 18-year-old Turkish national, in Sarajevo on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. Police also arrested Bajro Ikanovic and Almir Bajric, both Bosnian citizens, as well as a fifth suspect.

oDuring a search of the apartment Bektasevic and Abdulkadir shared, police found a bomb belt, explosives, firearms and other military equipment. A videotape of masked men begging God’s forgiveness for a sacrifice they were planning was also found in the apartment.

oThey were also trying to set up training camps in the hills near Sarajevolace, according to press reports.

§Open sources report the men may have been targeting the British Embassy in Sarajevo

·Media reports assert that Bektasevic ran a Web site on behalf of Abu Musab Zarqawi, and had pictures of the White House in his computer.

oBektasevic operated under the code name Maximus and reportedly kept in touch with Tsouli, Maghal, and al-Daour.

·A week after the Sarajevo arrests, police in Copenhagen detained four men ages 16 to 20 and said they had planned suicide bombings somewhere in Europe.

oPolice spokesman Joern Bro commented, “We had a very short period to investigate, but our information indicated that their action was imminent.”

§The Danes alleged that the Copenhagen suspects had been in contact by phone and e-mail with Bektasevic.

[Sean Osborne]

See posts 101, 109 and 111 found on Page 6 of the Terrorism News & Updates thread.

Post 101 tells you the operational plan.

Posts 109 and 111 tells you the mid-level and upper-level command and control and reconnaissance teams of the Al Qaeda cells involved.

This information should surprise no one reading these threads.

The Al Qaeda operational strike team here in the US remains unidentified and on-the-loose.

The planned strike in the UK is the subject of an intense manhurt and involves WMD.

Yet our national threat level remains YELLOW.

I am here telling you today it needs TO IMMEDIATELY bypass ORANGE and be RED.

[Sean Osborne]

Here are pertinent notes on the muslim individuals rounded up in the Canadian counter-terrorism bust. Canadian authorities have preemptively disrupted a major Islamic attack on their soil. The only difference between these muslims and those in the US is that these muslims live north of the border - i.e.: they are mujahideen terrorists (Islamic soldiers. slaves to allah, ETC. ETC.) no different than the rest of Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah or HAMAS.

Period.


Notes on how these mujahideen are presented in US media. This is a perfect example of Al-Taqiyya in practical application:

• Fahim Ahmad: A 21-year-old Muslim man from east-end Toronto with a reputation as a nice person and a solid basketball player.
  
  
• Shareef Abdelhaleen: The 30-year-old son of an engineer who immigrated to Canada from Egypt 20 years ago.
  
  
• Qayyum Abdul Jamal: A father of four boys, the 43-year-old drove a school bus and was an active member of his Mississauga community. He is the eldest of the suspects.
  
  
• Mohammed Dirie: Serving a two-year sentence in a Kingston jail for attempting to smuggle a gun across the U.S. border. The 22-year-old previously worked as a carpenter and was working toward a college diploma and Canadian citizenship.
  
  
• Yasim Abdi Mohamed: Serving a two-year sentence on weapons-smuggling charges at the same jail as Dirie. The 24-year-old lived in his mother's Toronto home before his arrest.
  
  
• Amin Mohamed Durrani: Described as outgoing and generous by a younger brother, the 19-year-old was barely known to his neighbours. Family members say he used to disappear for weeks at a time without explanation.
  
  
• Steven Vikash Chand: A recent convert to Islam, Chand had begun to use name Abdul Shakur. A member of his mosque said he often visited schools to reach out to troubled youth through his new-found faith.
  
  
• Ahmad Mustafa Ghany: A recent health sciences graduate of McMaster University. The 21-year-old is the son of a doctor who immigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago more than 40 years ago.
  
  
• Zakaria Amara: The 20-year-old man lived with a multigenerational family in Mississauga, but was a virtual unknown to his neighbours.
  
  
• Asad Ansari: The 21-year-old lived in Mississauga with a family of four or five people, but neighbours couldn't recall anything about him.
  
  
• Saad Khalid: Few details available about the 19-year-old.
  
  
• Jahmaal James: The 23-year-old lives in Toronto.
  

[Sean Osborne]

More pertinent notes extracted from the following open-source media report.


Notes:

• Potential targets included not only the CSIS offices but the Parliament Buildings and Peace Tower in Ottawa, and the CN Tower and Toronto Stock Exchange in Toronto
  
• The suspects were working to a timeline
  
• The fertiliser was delivered separated onto three one-tonne pallets. A controlled delivery does not constitue entrapment unless the subject is induced to do something he or she would not otherwise do.
  
• The five (unnamed) youths charged were all born in Canada

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home
Plot targeted Peace Tower

Complex operation leading to arrests of alleged terrorists shrouded in secrecy


TIMOTHY APPLEBY AND COLIN FREEZE
From Monday's Globe and Mail

The ammonium nitrate was delivered. The targets were set. After two years of a stealthily assembled counterterrorism web of surveillance, wiretaps and informants, police were ready to swoop down.
The operation was so complex and tightly shrouded that everyone involved — including all the roughly 400 police officers who scooped up the 17 suspected Islamic extremists Friday and Saturday — had to sign the Official Secrets Act, pledging total discretion.

Targets of the alleged plot included political and economic symbols such as the Parliament Buildings and Peace Tower in Ottawa, along with the CN Tower and Toronto Stock Exchange in Toronto.


But long before the sensational details and spectacular arrests came the watching. Visits to certain Internet sites were observed and traced. When visitors met with some of those under surveillance, they were arrested as soon as they returned to the United States. When a group from the Toronto area visited a private recreation area in Ontario's cottage country, police appeared in force the next day and began to pore over the grounds.

And when the watching came to a head, what triggered the rapid wave of RCMP-led Toronto-area arrests was the Mounties' controlled delivery shortly before of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate in 25-kilogram bags — gardening fertilizer that, when mixed with fuel oil, can produce a lethal bomb of the type white supremacist Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to destroy Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah building, killing 168 people.
Mr. McVeigh's truck bomb, however, was built with just one tonne of ammonium nitrate, a product sold at countless hardware and gardening stores.

The alleged conspirators' plans were evident, assistant RCMP commissioner Mike McDonell said.

“It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack. ... This group posed a real and serious threat. ... Our investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of explosive devices and attacks being carried out.”
As to targets, police would only say officially that all were in Southern Ontario and that Toronto's transit network of subway trains, buses and street cars is not thought to have been on the list.
The downtown Toronto office of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in the shadow of the CN Tower, was also believed to be at risk.

It appears the suspects were working to a timeline. Asked if he knew when the group planned to strike, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair replied that he did, without elaborating.

What's clear is that members of the alleged terrorist ring obtained the three tonnes of ammonium nitrate through what is termed “a controlled delivery,” commonly deployed in big drug busts, whereby police help arrange the delivery of the contraband (or something resembling it) and then arrest the recipients.

Shortly after the three pallets of chemicals arrived at their undisclosed destination, the raids in Toronto and Mississauga began, continuing into the early hours of Saturday and resulting in the arrest of 12 men, as well as five male teenagers whose identity is shielded under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
No other arrest warrants have been issued, police said.
Converting ammonium nitrate into bombs is nothing new. One year after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Irish Republican Army used it in a terrorist campaign in London and Manchester, as did the architects of the first World Trade Center bombings in 1993 and the 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
The huge bomb that killed 202 people at a pair of Bali nightclubs in 2002 was also fashioned from ammonium-nitrate bombs, which produce toxic clouds that burn and blind.
Police would not say where this three-tonne batch came from.
But because of the fertilizer's deadly potential, the Canadian Fertilizer Institute has for several years been working with police and retailers in efforts to spot orders for any unusually large sales.
And that looks to be what happened in this instance.
Asked about the delivery, Mr. McDonell said that as with chemical precursors used to manufacture illegal drugs, “Some of the distributors alert police to suspicious purchases.”

A controlled delivery does not constitute police entrapment unless it can be shown that the target was induced to do something he would not otherwise do.

Fifteen of the 17 accused appeared Saturday in a heavily guarded courtroom in Brampton, where bail applications that prosecutors will likely oppose will be heard Tuesday.
Six of the adults are from Mississauga and four from Toronto.
The other two men are in a Kingston-area penitentiary, serving two-year prison terms for trying to smuggle handguns and ammunition across the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie, Ont.

All are Canadian residents, and the majority — including the five youths charged — were born in Canada.

“By our information, I would call them homegrown,” CSIS assistant operations director Luc Portelance told a Saturday media briefing where a 25-kilo bag of ammonium nitrate — not part of the delivery — and a crude cellphone detonator were displayed, along with a computer hard drive, a door riddled with bullet holes, and camping and paramilitary gear that included a 9-mm Luger handgun, a Rambo-style assault knife, camouflage fatigues, flashlights and two-way radios.
“Clearly they are motivated by things we see around the world. They are against the Western influence in Islamic countries.” And while none of the 17 are known to have any formal affiliation with al-Qaeda, Mr. Portelance described them as people who “have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaeda.”
All, including the juveniles, are jointly accused of participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group, including training and recruitment; providing or making available property for terrorist purposes; and the commission of indictable offences, encompassing firearms and explosives offences, for the benefit of or in association with a terrorist group.
Named in the charges are Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Toronto; Zakaria Amara, 20, of Mississauga; Asad Ansari, 21, of Mississauga; Shareef Abdelhaleem, 30, of Mississauga; Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Mississauga; Mohammed Dirie, 22, of Kingston; Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, of Kingston; Jahmaal James, 23, of Toronto; Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, of Toronto; Steven Vikash Chand (alias Abdul Shakur), 25, of Toronto; Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Mississauga; and Saad Khalid, 19, of Mississauga.
Toronto Mayor David Miller said he was apprised of the investigation in January.

[Malsua]

The project was Osage and 6 months old. The timeline validates the November bust as we already knew. This article also claims 18 arrests in other countries. I'd be interested in more detail there.

-Mal

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/na...c00bd7&k=43137

Terror plot foiled

17 arrests Sweep nets explosive materials as part of international investigation




STEWART BELL and KELLY PATRICK, CanWest News Service

Published: Sunday, June 04, 2006 A Canadian counterterrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries.

Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden and Bangladesh.

The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar.

At a news conference yesterday, the RCMP announced terrorism charges had been laid against a dozen Toronto-area men and five teens under the age of 18. The group "took steps to acquire components necessary to create explosive devices" including three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, police said.

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer is commonly used in terrorist bombs, police said.
By comparison, the truck bomb used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, contained a single tonne of ammonium nitrate.

"It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack," said RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell.

"This group posed a real threat. It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks."
Police declined to identify the intended targets because the investigation is continuing, but said they were all in southern Ontario and did not include the Toronto transit system, as some news media had reported.

As senior RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials spoke to reporters, some of the evidence seized during police raids was displayed on a table guarded by police officers.

The materials included a bag of ammonium nitrate, a pistol and ammunition clip, computer hard drive, and what appeared to be a cellphone-activated electronic detonator hidden inside a small black fishing tackle box.

The accused made brief court appearances in Brampton, north of Toronto, yesterday.

They face charges of participating in the acts of a terrorist group, including training and recruitment; firearms and explosives offences for the purposes of terrorism and providing property for terrorist purposes.

The accused men are mostly in their teens and 20s. They include men of Somali, Egyptian, Jamaican and Trinidadian origin. All are residents of Canada and "for the most part" are Canadian citizens, police said.

Charged are: Fahim Ahmad, 21, Zakaria Amara, 20, Asad Ansari, 21, Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mohammed Dirie, 22, Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Jahmaal James, 23, Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Steven Vikash Chand, 25, and Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21. A 12th man and five youths can't be named.

"For various reasons, they appear to have become adherents to a violent ideology inspired by Al-Qa'ida," said Luc Portelance, the CSIS assistant director of operations.

"Any movement that has the ability to turn people against their fellow citizens is obviously something that CSIS is very concerned about."

He called the investigation the largest since the Anti-terrorism Act was passed in December 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

"It is important to know that this operation in no way reflects negatively on any specific community, or ethno-cultural group in Canada," he added.
CSIS and RCMP officials invited about a dozen members of Toronto's Muslim community to a meeting yesterday morning to discuss potential fallout.

"The police said they are cognizant of the fact that there could be a backlash and that they've taken all precautions to ensure that nothing like this happens," said Canadian Muslim Congress spokesperson Tarek Fatah. "They are very conscious of the fact that this is a small group of criminals and they don't reflect the vast Muslim community in Toronto."

The Toronto busts are linked to arrests that began last August at a Canadian border post near Niagara Falls and continued in October in Sarajevo, London and Scandinavia, and this year in New York and Georgia.
The FBI confirmed yesterday the arrests were related to the recent indictments in the United States of Ehsanul Sadequee and Syed Ahmed, who are accused of meeting with extremists in Toronto last March to discuss terrorist training and plots.
National Post

© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006

[Sean Osborne]

More detail...


Terrorists, Al Qaeda, Toronto

Missing from Kingston terror suspects in penitentiary

By Judi McLeod & Doug Hagmann
Monday, June 5, 2006

It’s been a textbook needle-in-the-haystack search for the media and the Kingston Muslim community to find any trace of terror suspects Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Mohamed, 24, in Kingston, Ontario.
A hot pursuit sprang into action when the media fanned out Saturday to find relatives and friends of 12 of the 17 Toronto-area suspects named and arrested in an alleged terrorist plot to attack unspecified targets in southern Ontario.
Police gave little information about the suspect terrorists at Saturday’s joint RCMP/CSIS press conference, only indicating that most arrested were your average Canadian residents from a variety of Middle Eastern backgrounds; the kind of guys that always wave when you spot them barbecuing supper in the backyard next door.
As RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonnell put it: "Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed."
As time in the big chase for more information was to prove, "some are students."
Arrested terrorist suspect Ahmad Ghany, 21, is a health sciences graduate from McMaster University in Hamilton. That’s the same university where stories have cropped up about terrorists posing as students, and the same university from which international terrorist Adnan El Shukrijumah, aka "Jafar the Pilot" is alleged to have stolen 180 lbs. of nuclear materials from its on campus nuclear reactor.
But what Commissioner Mike McDonnell failed to tell the media is that two of the alleged terrorists busted along with the 15 others happen to call a penitentiary home.
Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasmin Mohamed, 24, who seem to have all but vanished into the thin air, were listed simply "of Kingston" on the list of names released Saturday by police.
Members of Kingston’s Muslin community told Canadian press they knew nothing about either man.
"I have been asking around and no one seems to know them," said Hafizurt Rahman, president of the Islamic Centre of Kingston." (CBC News Online, June 4, 2006).
"He said they may have been students at Queen’s University, but Haseeb Khan, president of the Muslim Students’ Association at Queen’s, didn’t recognize their names.
For an inquiring mainstream media, nonplussed was still the order of the day, even when only 15 of the 17 suspects charged showed up for court.
Dirie and Mohamed were no shows because they were incarcerated.
As initially reported on the Tom Bauerle Show on WBEN AM 930 by The Northeast Intelligence Network director Doug Hagmann, three of the 17 Canadian terror suspects were the topic of a WBEN AM-930 radio show briefing last August. Ali Dirie, 22, (a/k/a Mohammed Dirie) and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, both Canadians from the Toronto area, were arrested as they attempted to enter into Canada from the U.S. on August 14, 2005 on weapons related charges. The men’s vehicle, rented by a third Canadian terrorist suspect, Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Toronto, underwent a search at about 5:40 a.m. at the Peace Bridge.
The two men attempted entry from the United States into Canada via Buffalo’s Peace Bridge on August 14, 2005. Canadian border officials discovered that the two men had handguns and ammunition strapped to their bodies; two loaded guns were found strapped to Dirie’s thighs, and ammunition was also found hidden on both parties.
At the time of Friday’s historical raid, both Dirie and Mohamed were languishing in a Kingston penitentiary, each serving a two-year sentence on the weapons charges.
A weekend update by the Northeast Intelligence Network in conjunction with Canada Free Press stated that the arrests in Toronto were due, in part to investigation and surveillance conducted on two State of Georgia men, both indicted in March. Georgia Tech student Syed Ahmed, 21, was indicted by a grand jury on March 23, 2006 for material support of terrorism. A second Georgia man, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, was arrested in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Both Ahmed and Sadequee are naturalized U.S. citizens who grew up in the Atlanta area. They met with at least three other subjects of ongoing FBI terrorism investigations during a trip to Canada in March, 2005.
Intelligence sent to the Northeast Intelligence Network also indicates to "expect more arrests, perhaps a dozen more".
Meanwhile, it’s too easy to poke fun at the mainstream media for not being able to figure that prison would be a likely spot to find two elusive terror suspects charged under Canada’s Criminal Code on Friday night.
But in fairness, who would expect police to place the words "of Kingston" beside two names on the charged list when the other 10 all included specific addresses?
And if the police didn’t tell reporters that terror suspects Mohamed Dirie and Yasim Mohamed were serving time in a Kingston prison, what else didn’t they tell them?
Find out by reading Canada Free Press.
The Northeast Intelligence Network in conjunction with CanadaFreePress.com will have additional information as available to be provided.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover060506.htm

[Sean Osborne]

Even more detailed details...


Plot began in chat room
CSIS monitored discussions on bombing targets
'Training camp' visit turning point for investigators
Jun. 5, 2006. 05:21 AM
NICOLAAS VAN RIJN
STAFF REPORTER


For most Canadians, ammonium nitrate — even after it was used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, including dozens of kids in a daycare centre —is nothing much more than a commonly used plant fertilizer.

Farmers buy and use it by the tonne, mixing it into the soil to ensure a bountiful crop.

But mix ammonium nitrate with the inflammatory rhetoric of an Internet chat room, and it instantly acquires the potential to become something entirely different, needing only the addition of a little fuel oil to turn it into a lethal bomb.

So when a shadowy group of disaffected urban youth began talking in an Internet chat room in the fall of 2004 espousing anti-Western views, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening.

The spy agency, and an alphabet soup of other security agencies across the continent, closely monitor such sites, where talk may sometimes turn to buildings and bombs and bringing global jihad home to North America, to Canada.

Often it's just that — talk — but when CSIS began monitoring the sites allegedly used by some of the 17 men and youths arrested on terrorism-related charges in a sweeping series of raids across the GTA Friday evening, the Canadian spy agency heard enough to remain interested, and increased surveillance of the group.

While CSIS and police typically won't talk about their operational methods, the available techniques range from monitoring electronic communications, from cell phones and landlines to emails and computers, to physically following persons of interest as they move about and talk to others.

Four months after the surveillance began, two Americans, from the Atlanta, Ga., area, popped onto the radar.

Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee had been communicating by email with the Canadian group, investigators allege, and in March 2005 the two hopped on a Greyhound bus, paying $280 (U.S.) for two round-trip tickets to Toronto, where, according to U.S. court documents, they were to meet with "like-minded Islamists."

"According to Ahmed ... they met regularly with at least three subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation," the court documents allege, and discussed "strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike."

By now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was involved, and also monitoring members of the Canadian group. The federal police service was brought into the case Nov. 17, 2004, by CSIS agents who believed they had enough information to warrant a criminal investigation.

According to the Los Angeles Times, U.S. authorities were also watching the two Americans, and at some point discovered communications between the men in Canada and Atlanta and other suspected terrorists overseas, including a group arrested in London last fall that counted among its members a computer specialist who used the Arabic word irhabi — for terrorist — as his Internet handle, Irhabi007.

Talk in the group was wide-ranging, according to an American law enforcement official, "about a whole range of targets." Officials and U.S. court documents allege group members were scouting targets that included Canadian government buildings, American oil refineries, and a U.S. tower that they believed controlled global positioning systems used in aviation.

Federal prosecutors in New York also told a recent hearing Sadequee and Ahmed had visited Washington and videotaped the U.S. Capitol, the World Bank headquarters and some fuel storage facilities.

They were charged in March and April and are awaiting trial.

Ahmed, a Pakistani native who has pleaded not guilty, arrived in the U.S. with his family when he was about 12 and is now an American citizen; Sadequee, whose family came from Bangladesh, was born in Virginia; he has been denied bail and is awaiting trial.

In August, 2005, Canadian investigators were watching closely as a car tried to cross back into Canada across the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie. Pulled over by a student working with the Canadian Border Services Agency, the car was rented by Fahim Ahmad, 22 — arrested as part of Friday's sweep — for two others, 24-year-old Yasin Abdi Mohamed of Toronto and Ali Dirie, 22, last of Markham.

Mohamed was found with a loaded handgun tucked in his waistband; Dirie had two pistols taped to his inner thighs; both are now serving two-year sentences.

No charges were laid against Ahmad for making the vehicle available. Not then.

By last winter federal investigators were becoming increasingly concerned about the Canadian group, stressing that it shouldn't be underestimated. Among the things that set alarm bells ringing was an alleged visit to a northern Ontario "training camp" by group members; what they did there or how long they stayed hasn't been revealed.

But investigators allege some of the group's members made a video showing them imitating military manoeuvres. And, police say, the suspects had allegedly acquired guns.

By February, intelligence analysts saw the group as the country's greatest terrorism threat, and called an unusual high-level briefing for chiefs of Ontario's police forces, including Toronto police Chief Bill Blair.

Not long after that investigators brought Toronto Mayor David Miller into the loop, alerting him to a terror investigation that might include a Toronto building as its target.

Although no one is saying so officially, the CSIS headquarters, on Front St. in the shadow of the CN Tower, was among the possible targets — but not, officials stressed during a news conference Saturday, the TTC.

The lengthy investigation took on added urgency this month when talk in the group allegedly turned to acquiring three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, enough to build several powerful bombs.

The rental truck used by Timothy McVeigh to destroy the eight-storey Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was loaded with only a third of that amount; his victims included 168 dead and more than 800 wounded.

Like the CSIS building, the Murrah complex was filled with law enforcement offices.

By the end of last week, investigators felt they had enough evidence to move in on the group.

Although police haven't officially said so, sources have told the Star's Michelle Shephard that the final act in the multi-year investigation came when federal agents intercepted the group's order for the fertilizer, and arranged to have it delivered by truck.

But, the Star has learned, police switched the fertilizer with a harmless powder before making the delivery.

After the deal was done, the handcuffs came out.

At around the same time an elite team led by the RCMP's anti-terrorism task force, comprising federal agents and police officers from forces including Toronto, York, Durham and Peel, began swooping down on locations in Mississauga and Toronto.

Heavily armed officers and armoured vehicles were used in the raids, and police say they met with no resistance in arresting 12 adult males and five juveniles. Most were processed that night at a heavily-guarded Durham police station in Pickering, and appeared in Brampton court the next morning, also under heavy security.

On Saturday, at a 10 a.m. news conference, investigators began revealing some of what they know.

Chiefs of the Toronto, Peel, York and Durham police forces, and representatives from the OPP and CSIS, flanked RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell as he outlined what police say were their plans for the fertilizer.

"It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack," McDonell said. "If I can put this in context for you, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was completed with only one tonne of ammonium nitrate.

"This group posed a real and serious threat," McDonell emphasized. "It had the capacity and intent to carry out these acts."

Behind him, a tabletop held evidence from the Friday evening raids, including a 9-mm Luger pistol, military fatigues, a grab-bag of items ranging from two-way radios, knives and flashlights to duct tape, and a sample bag of ammonium nitrate.

Six of the accused adults are from Mississauga, four from Toronto and two are serving time in a Kingston prison on gun-smuggling charges. Most of the men are in their 20s, although one is 30, another 43.

Police have said they will not discuss the five juveniles arrested during the sweep.

Charges against the men — who return to Brampton court Tuesday — include participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group, including training and recruitment; providing or making available property for terrorist purposes; and the commission of indictable offences including firearms and explosives offences for the benefit of or in association with a terrorist group.

This marks only the second time that such charges have been laid since the Criminal Code was amended in 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, to include terrorism offences.

It's also the first time police have made arrests to stop what they allege was an imminent terror attack on Canadian soil.

For neighbours of the 10 men and five juveniles who appeared in Brampton court Saturday — Yasin Abdi Mohamed and Ali Dirie, in prison in Kingston, did not appear — the arrests and charges came mostly as a shock.

They talked of quiet men, religious men, who played basketball and went to school and looked for jobs, of an elder who mentored younger men, but mostly, of men who kept to themselves, coming and going silently to and from their homes in Mississauga and Toronto.

"They never spoke to anyone," said one neighbour.

One youngster talked of the older brother, 19, who'd often disappear, for weeks at a time, without telling anyone where he was going.

"I heard he was going to some camp," the younger brother said. "But I don't know anything about it."

But eventually the older brother and his friends would reappear, the boy recalled, usually with a gift.

"They brought me a lot of stuff, like army suits and caps," the boy said. "Sometimes, he'll go get pizza."


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1149460818073&call_pageid=968332188492

[Sean Osborne]

Very high probability this is related to the ongoing in Canada...

Suspected terrorists removed from inbound Air Canada flight Jun, 04 2006 - 10:40 PM

RICHMOND/CKNW(AM980) - Air Canada says it may have been young people acting up on a flight from London, England to Vancouver, but passengers onboard the flight say otherwise. There were some tense moments as the Air Canada plane sat on the tarmac of London's Heathrow Airport. Vancouver passenger, Ivan Bulic says British police boarded the plane and told them to stay in their seats, while five males were dragged off the plane, "When police came onboard, heavily-armed police with bullet-proof vests and dogs, and two busloads of police surrounded the aircraft, people were obvioulsy wondering what was going on." The flight touched down safely in Vancouver Sunday afternoon. Another passenger confirms the suspects were all adult males and remained quiet as they were being removed from the flight.

http://www.cknw.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428327912&rem=39632&red=80132723aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm

[Sean Osborne]

Besides the CanadaFreePress reporting on this, there is another another sane Canadian report - and this one will have you in stitches if not rolling on the floor with laughter. Some truly witty commentary from Rachel Marsden. You are Canadien, not you are, eh?


http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/op...ists/69609.htm

CANADA'S CRY: 'WHY US?' By RACHEL MARSDEN June 6, 2006 -- TORONTO THE arrests of 17 Toronto-area Muslim men - allegedly intent on blowing up such southern Ontario targets as CN Tower, Parliament and the Toronto Stock Exchange - led to some Nancy Kerrigan "why me?" moments among Canadians. Folks here think that targeting Canadians is like gunning for the Care Bears. A mere flash of a Canadian flag on our backpacks is supposed to make people from all over the world want to hug, feed and clothe us. The reaction to what might've been the biggest terrorist attack in North America was the same when Osama bin Laden, and more recently, the Taliban's Mullah Dadullah threatened Canada: Surely they didn't mean it. After all, no country is more diverse and tolerant than Canada. And no city within Canada is more Muslim-loving and liberal than Toronto; the provincial government even considered sanctioning oppressive Muslim Sharia law. Want to live in a ghetto with your peeps and not have to integrate with your fellow Canadians? Toronto is the place for you. So why, people here ask, would anyone want to do damage to Toronto? Maybe they don't. No one has been convicted of anything yet. Maybe the three tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer that the suspects allegedly ordered were going to be used to grow a massive garden that would spell out "I Love Canada!" in tulips. And that cell phone jimmied up to a circuit board, seized in the police raid? That doesn't have to be a detonator. Some kids put spoilers and shiny rims on their Honda Civics; maybe others just like to fiddle with their phones because Nokia can't keep up with the technological preferences of today's young Muslims. Yes, I guess it's possible that various law-enforcement agencies that normally can't agree on what kind of pizza to order conspired against 17 innocent Muslims. As the authorities have said, "It's important to note this operation in no way reflects negatively on any specific community or ethnocultural group" - right before revealing a list of suspect names that read like a cast list for Osama bin Laden's "E! True Hollywood Story." Hearing a similar comment from law enforcement about, say, the recent Enron convictions not reflecting negatively on rich white guys would have been funny. But we Canadians are supposed to take this ethnic-whitewashing stuff seriously. Some suspects are "Canadian citizens," authorities say. Right - nothing but toque-wearing, maple-syrup-loving, Wayne "Mohammed" Gretzkys. They know how to play us, anyway. A lawyer for one suspect is already threatening civil lawsuits. Another complained about tactical police officers with guns just outside the courthouse during the suspects' first appearance. Canada never took an official role in the Iraq war, yet a relative of one suspect has said that it was Canada's role in Iraq - not in Afghanistan, where we're actively engaged - that angered his Muslim homeboy. But other Muslims have cited Afghanistan. Up until the recent election of a Conservative government, Canada has been the doofus who keeps getting shoved into lockers, but still figures that if he gives up more lunches and bus money, the haranguing will end. Yet the new Conservative government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already denounced Iran and Hamas, deported illegal immigrants and told anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to shove it during a recent visit. There's a new sheriff in town. But will the townspeople will back him up? Rachel Marsden is a political columnist and the Canadian correspondent for the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. rachel@rachelmarsden.com

[Malsua]

Rofl Sean. That about sums it up.

Doofus shoved into a locker. rofl.

[American Patriot]

So you had a hand in bringing these guys down Sean? WOOT!

[Sean Osborne]

So you had a hand in bringing these guys down Sean? WOOT!

I would say that NEIN is involved, along with Canadian and US LE/Security.

However... this is just the tip of the iceberg. Barely the tip at that. We are told to expect 80 -120 additional arrests to be made.

This is one huge international Islamist group linked only by email and phone contact. Much of it goes back to Iraq and al-Zarqawi, bin Laden, et al.

These Canadian islamists were in the final stages prior to execution of the attacks. NUmber one target was the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) with others in the group striking Canadian government buildings as well as mass murder with assualt weapons in a high volume public area.

The US side of this plot remains very much at-large.

In the UK Counter-Terr units are scrambling to find a sarin gas device which would make the Tokyo attack of years ago pale in comparision.

Something major in the US is ongoing and stretches from Canada to Miami and all through the heartland.

This is not a good time at all for complacency. Be on your toes. Be alert for middle-easterners wearing red shirts or jackets.