Terrorists Nabbed in Toronto

[SirLoin]

No link yet as it's breaking news.

12 adults,5 youths and 3 tonnes of Amonium Nitrate(fertilizer) seized..that's three times the amount used in the Oklahoma City...Explosive devices,weapons etc also found.

Apparently they were planning several attacks simultaniously in Southern Ontario.

[eagl]

yaaaay... wiretaps?

I doubt we'll ever know the truth but it would be interesting to hear the whole story on how they busted the group(s).

[Toad]

Apparently it was subway video.

Canadian Police Conduct Terror Sweep

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by eagl
yaaaay... wiretaps?

I doubt we'll ever know the truth but it would be interesting to hear the whole story on how they busted the group(s).

[Gunslinger]

I sure hope their civil rights weren't violated.  

GJ to the toronto police and whomever else was involved.

[Gunslinger]

on a more serious note:

They are young, militant and Canadian. And according to senior counterterrorism authorities, they have been plotting large-scale terrorist attacks on Canadian soil.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledged this week it has been investigating groups of "homegrown" extremists. In candid testimony to the Senate national security committee, the agency went on to say that these young followers of the "al-Qaeda ideology" have been plotting against targets within Canada.

"They are not looking to Afghanistan, the U.K. or anywhere else," Jack Hooper, the CSIS Deputy Director of Operations, testified on Monday.

The exact targets of these young terrorists were not revealed, but it is their profile that is most shocking: young Canadian Muslims who have somehow become radicalized while growing up in Canada.

They are "homegrown." In other words, they have emerged from within Canada, rather than infiltrating it from abroad. They are insiders, not outsiders like Millennium Bomber Ahmed Ressam, who was behind Canada's last major terrorism scare in 1999.

"Increasingly, we are learning of more and more extremists that are homegrown," says a declassified CSIS report obtained by the National Post. "The implications of this shift are important."

Across the Atlantic, the term "European Jihad" is now used to describe the new generation of young Muslim extremists who not only live in Europe, but also consider it a legitimate terrorist target.

A Canadian Jihad is apparently underway as well.

Canada's top national security problem used to be the homeland terrorism that occurs when foreigners bring to Canada the violent causes of their countries of origin.

Other people's wars have been seeping into Canada for decades as a result of what intelligence officials call "the spillover effect," which is what happened when Sikh terrorists in B.C. bombed two Air-India planes in 1985.

Homeland terrorists such as the Tamil Tigers remain a security problem for Canada, but they are no longer the country's only major threat. Of equal concern to counterterrorism investigators is homegrown terrorism.

"We have a bifurcated threat at this point," Mr. Hooper testified. "The threat that comes to Canada from the outside as well as a homegrown threat, and the homegrown variants look to Canada to execute their targeting.

"We must be vigilant on two fronts," he added, "that which is coming to us from the outside environment and, increasingly, that which is growing up in our communities."

In Europe, the United States and Australia, intelligence agencies have been reporting the same trend: loose homegrown youth networks (some of them virtual networks that exist only in cyberspace) inspired by al-Qaeda but that operate locally and autonomously.

The suicide bombings in London last July 7 that killed 52, for example, were the work of three British-born Muslims and a Jamaican-born immigrant who had converted to Islam. "The attacks showed very clearly that terrorism is a 'homegrown' problem," said a British parliamentary committee's report on the

Neer mind foreign terrorist, why is Canada growing it's own

I hope that by posting this I'm not making anyone in Canada live in fear

[Yeager]

There is no terror threat in Toronto fellas....its just the new conservative canadian government loading up on fear mongering.  Easier to retain power when your populace is afraid of terrorists.  No doubt those poor bastards in custody are innocent.  Scapegoats on a one way trip to Gitmo.

[xrtoronto]

I wish we had the death penalty here.

Hopefully, someone behind bars will take care of these mf's

[Roscoroo]

Curval and His "Scooter" werent involved according to news sources.


I'm glad they caught them befor meaningless deaths acurred

[Ripsnort]

Internet monitoring lead to arrests:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1149285034044&call_pageid=976163513378&col=969048863474

[Gunslinger]

I wonder how Nash is going to spin this as being Bush's fault?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I wonder how Nash is going to spin this as being Bush's fault?

Is tapping domestic calls on suspicious activities any different than monitoring ones internet traffic? I would say no, its no different.

As I said before, any Government agency may monitor my phone calls or internet traffic if they suspect me of terrorism.

[midnight Target]

So the ultra liberal Canadians have made the biggest terrorist bust in years...

hows that for spin?

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by midnight Target
So the ultra liberal Canadians have made the biggest terrorist bust in years...

hows that for spin?

Didn't they just elect a CONSERVATIVE govt?

[soda72]

Well if we don't hear from Nash we'll all know what happened..