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Behind The Canadian Arrest Looms Another Conspiracy Against Muslims? Wake Up Ummah & Smell The Coffee!
04 June, 2006
17 Arrested in
Police foil homegrown terrorist attack by arresting suspects
apparently inspired by al-Qaeda, who obtained three times amount of explosive
ingredient used in
Associated Press
Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17
suspects, apparently inspired by al-Qaeda, who obtained three times the amount
of an explosive ingredient used in the
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The FBI said the Canadian suspects may have had "limited
contact" with two men recently arrested on terrorism charges in
"These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of
terrorism against their own country and their own people," Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement. "As we have said on many
occasions,
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 12 adult suspects, ages 43 to
19, 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
The group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate - three times the
amount used to blow up the
The fertilizer can be mixed with fuel oil or other ingredients to make a bomb.
"This group posed a real and serious threat," McDonell said. "It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks."
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About 400 regional police officers participate in arrests (Photo: Reuters)
Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations with
Five of the suspects were led in handcuffs Saturday to the Ontario Court of Justice, which was surrounded by snipers and bomb-sniffing dogs. A judge told the men not to communicate with one another and set their first bail hearing for Tuesday.
'It's not terrorism'
Alvin Chand, a brother of suspect Steven Vikash Chand, said outside the courthouse that his brother was innocent and authorities "just want to show they're doing something."
"He's not a terrorist, come on. He's a Canadian citizen," Chand said. "The people that were arrested are good people, they go to the mosque, they go to school, go to college."
FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said in
Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, US citizens who grew up in
the
Officials at the news conference displayed purported bomb-making materials including a red cell phone wired to what appeared to be an explosives detonator inside a black toolbox. Also shown were a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms, flashlights and walkie-talkies.
According to a report Saturday in The Toronto Star citing unidentified
police sources, the suspects attended a terrorist training camp north of
The suspects lived in either
Also at the court hearing was Aly Hindy, an imam of an Islamic center that houses a school and a mosque and has been monitored by security agencies for years. He said he knows nine of the suspects and that Muslims once again were being falsely accused.
"It's not terrorism. It could be some criminal activity with a few guys, that's all," said Hindy. "We are the ones always accused. Somebody fakes a document and they are an international terrorist forging documents for al-Qaeda."
Rocco Galati, lawyer for two suspects from
Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, is a computer programmer who emigrated from
The charges came under
Portelance, of
The adult suspects from
Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, are from
(06.04.06, 08:31)
Canada police nab 10 on terror charges
Canadian
Press quoted an unnamed police source as saying the charges were
related to an explosives plot in Ontario; more arrests expected
overnight
Associated Press
At least 10 suspects were arrested in the Toronto area on terrorism-related charges, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The Canadian Press quoted an unnamed police source as saying the charges were related to an explosives plot in Ontario, Canada's largest province. The arrests were made throughout Friday and more were expected overnight, with some 400 officers involved, in cooperation with the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Paradis.
The national police force said it would reveal more details at a news conference Saturday.
"The investigation is ongoing," Paradis said. "Most of the police services throughout the greater Toronto area have been involved."
The Integrated National Security Enforcement Team is comprised of the RCMP, federal agencies such as Canada Border Services Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, as well as provincial and municipal police services. Armed officers were surrounding the Durham Regional Police Station in the city of Pickering, just east of Toronto, as the suspects were brought in unmarked cars which were drove into an underground garage.
The arrests could be tied to investigations of two men skulking around a downtown Toronto subway stop with video cameras on May 23. Police said passengers reported the men were filming around the Keele subway stop and beneath subway car seats.
(06.03.06, 09:57)
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Canada terror suspects may have had US contacts
Sat Jun 3, 2006 3:30pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some members of a group of Canadians arrested on terror-related offenses may have been in contact with two U.S. suspects now in custody who were based in Georgia, the FBI said on Saturday.
"There is preliminary indication that some of the Canadian subjects may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgia," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in an e-mail.
Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested March 23 after a grand jury returned an indictment charging him with material support of terrorism. He has pleaded innocent and has not yet come to trial.
Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, left Georgia after Ahmed's indictment but was later taken into custody in Bangladesh and returned to the United States, where he was charged in New York's federal court with lying to federal officials in an ongoing terrorism investigation.
Sadequee and Ahmed traveled to Canada on March 13, 2005, to meet with Islamic extremists, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement.
The two "stayed with an individual with whom they were conspiring concerning travel to terrorist camps, and met with three subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation and discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a possible terrorist strike," the statement said, citing the complaint against Sadequee.
U.S. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said on Saturday there were no plans to change the U.S. security posture following Saturday's arrests in Canada.
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Canada arrests terror suspects
Sat Jun 3, 2006 6:01pm ET
By Janet Guttsman
TORONTO (Reuters) - Seventeen Canadian residents arrested on terrorism charges were inspired by al Qaeda, had amassed enough explosives to build huge bombs and were planning to blow up targets in densely populated Ontario, police said on Saturday.
The group possessed three tons of ammonium nitrate -- or three times the amount used in the 1995 federal building bombing in Oklahoma City that killed 168 -- and were preparing to make bombs, Mike McDonell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said
Police arrested 12 men and five young people. The adults were from Toronto and a suburb Mississauga, and from Kingston, Ontario.
At a news conference, police showed off a haul they described as bomb-making equipment, including white sacks of fertilizer, a cell phone in a box with wiring, a board apparently used for target practice, a computer hard drive and army fatigues.
"This group posed a real and serious threat," McDonell said. "It had the capacity and intent to carry out attacks. ... The modus operandi is very similar to other attacks that have taken place around the world and other threat of attacks."
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in an e-mail: "There is preliminary indication that some of the Canadian subjects may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from (the U.S. state of) Georgia."
In Atlanta, a 21-year-old man was arrested on March 23 for giving material support of terrorism. Later, a 19-year-old man was arrested in Bangladesh and returned to the United States, where he was charged with lying to federal officials.
The U.S. Justice Department said the two suspects had traveled to Canada on March 13, 2005, to meet with Islamic extremists. The two "... met with three subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation and discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a possible terrorist strike," a statement said.NSPIRED BY AL QAEDA
Canadian police charged the adults, aged 19 to 43, and five youngsters under the age of 18, with terrorism-related offenses. The oldest was Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Mississauga, police said.
The suspects appeared on Saturday afternoon in a well-guarded courtroom in Brampton, a Toronto suburb, where police blocked off the street and officers with bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the area. Police snipers stood guard nearby.
Aly Hindy, an imam at a Toronto mosque, said he knew most of the accused and believed one or two were involved in criminal acts but not terrorism-related.
"One guy was doing some criminal activity, selling guns for money. But the problem is these days when a Muslim commits fraud, it becomes terrorism. When he commits stealing it becomes terrorism," he told reporters outside the courtroom.
Inside the courtroom, some family members sobbed and waited, while others attempted to speak or wave to the arrested men, who were brought in small groups and remanded in custody until next Tuesday.
"They're all residents of Canada and for the most part, they're all citizens." McDonell said. "They represent the broad strata of our community. Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed."
"For various reasons, they appear to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda," said Luc Portelance, a senior official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There have been no al Qaeda-type attacks in Canada, although security services have long fretted about possible risks and the United States has urged more vigilance on the long border the two countries share.U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke with his Canadian counterpart Stockwell Day early on Saturday, said homeland security spokesman Russ Knocke.
Police say the group planned to target locations in southern Ontario, Canada's political and economic heart.
Police would not identify the targets, but media reports said they included at least one tourist site in Toronto.
Officials said the men had trained together in a camp in Canada. Media reports said the camp was located north of Toronto.
Canada, under its previous Liberal government, declined to join the U.S.-led forces in Iraq, and many Canadians felt that helped their country stay off the al Qaeda radar screen.
But the Liberals did send troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban there. Harper's Conservative government has extended that mission, despite rising casualty levels among Canadian troops.
(Additional reporting by Deborah Zabarenko in Washington))
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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FACTBOX: Five facts about Canada terrorism arrests
Sat Jun 3, 2006 2:38pm ET
(Reuters) - Canadian police arrested a group of men and teenage boys in coordinated raids across Toronto, alleging they were plotting a bomb attack in southern Ontario.
Here are five facts about the incident:
* Police said the group had acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate -- or three times the amount used in the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City -- and said they were planning to blow up targets in Ontario, Canada's political and economic heart.
* Canadian Security Intelligence Service said the men had become "adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda." The spy service has warned in recent years that a terror attack on Canadian soil was probably inevitable.
* Twelve men aged between 19 and 43 and five teenage males under the age of 18 were arrested. All face terrorism-related charges under Canada's Criminal Code. All were residents of Canada and most are Canadian citizens.
* The adults were from Toronto, its western suburb of Mississauga and from Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern edge of Lake Ontario and not far from the border with the United States.
* Canadian police identified the 12 men as: 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 alias Abdul Shakur, 25; Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21; and Saad Khalid, 19.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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