Terror In Toronto
“Turns out they don’t have to find us. They are us.”
In today’s FrontPageMag, Stephen Brown reports:
This statement by Toronto journalist Joe Warmington sums up perfectly the arrests last Friday of 17 suspected Islamist terrorists, mostly in the Toronto area, who were planning multiple attacks on targets in southern Ontario. Shockingly for Canadians, almost all the suspects, who range in age from 17 to 43 years, were either born in Canada or had arrived here at an early age and possess Canadian citizenship. Five are under the age of 18 and thus will be tried as young offenders under Canadian law; most of the others are in their early twenties.
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Canada’s CIA), the group intended to blow up government buildings, including the CSIS and RCMP headquarters in Toronto, in retaliation for Canada’s support of America in the War on Terror. To do so, they had procured three tons of fertilizer of the type used to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, which took only one ton to destroy. In raids across the Greater Toronto Area and in Kingston, CSIS seized a cell phone detonator and military paraphernalia that had been used at a training camp the accused had set up in an isolated Ontario area. At the police press conference after the arrests on Friday, even the door the suspects had been using for target practice at the camp was put on display, riddled with bullet holes. CSIS also said the investigation is ongoing.
. . .A large problem in Canada’s fight against terrorism at home was the previous Liberal government, which was voted out of power earlier this year after 12 years of rule. The Liberals are Canada’s party of multiculturalism. As a result, the Liberal government hesitated to crack down hard on terrorist groups, enforce deportation orders (such as the one against Ahmed Ressam) or tighten lax immigration and asylum laws for fear of alienating the urban ethnic vote that forms a large part of their constituency.
Former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien once even had the temerity to say that there were no terrorist groups in Canada, causing CSIS to go to the Canadian public via the media to contradict him, saying there were at least 50 terrorist organizations operating on Canadian soil. A vindictive Chretien then cut CSIS’ budget. So is it any wonder that Canada’s only court-recognized expert on jihadism, Tom Quiggen, recently told a Canadian national newspaper that “…some of the world’s most infamous terrorists have operated in Canada almost unhindered for years.”
Read the whole shocking report.
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June 5th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Certainly this is shocking news, but why not mention that the ‘three tons of fertilzer’ was actually sold to them by the police?
As stated here:WASHINGTON: The three tonnes of ammonium nitrate found with the Totonto terrorism suspects was planted by the police in an elaborate sting operation.
While it is deeply disturbing that such a group existed and was plotting to perform acts of terrorism, it is another entirely to make it seem as if they were on the verge of pulling the trigger on these attacks, when, in fact, they were nowhere close.
June 5th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
From Chat Room to Major Terror Plot Bust
The Canadian terrorist plot began in a chat room. It developed into a full-blown plot to acquire the means and methods to carry out a terrorist attack, the targets of which are not being revealed by law enforcement.