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Subject: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: beardedbruce Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:52 PM Canada thwarts plot to blow up U.S.-Canada rail line By Euan Rocha | Reuters – 21 mins ago TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian security forces thwarted a plot to blow up a rail line between Canada and the United States and will announce arrests on Monday afternoon, police and intelligence agencies said. U.S. security and law enforcement sources also said the suspects had sought to attack the railroad between Toronto and New York City. Canadian media said two men had been arrested after raids in Toronto and Montreal, Canada's two biggest cities. Canadian police are holding a briefing about a "national security criminal investigation" at 3:30 p.m. ET (1930 GMT). The police statement, which gave no details of arrests, said various Canadian security forces had conducted joint operations in the two cities. A U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said the operations was conducted with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. The arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January. It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of a group of more than a dozen Toronto-area men accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets. Eleven men were eventually convicted of taking part on the plot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 22 Apr 13 - 05:27 PM It is said that Iran, although no friend of Al Qaeda, helped them with this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: bobad Date: 22 Apr 13 - 05:52 PM RCMP say they believe the two men arrested were connected with Al Qaeda in IRAN. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Jack the Sailor Date: 22 Apr 13 - 06:20 PM CBC story http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/22/pol-terror-plot-ontario-quebec-arrests.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Rapparee Date: 22 Apr 13 - 07:01 PM Don't the passenger railroads in North America have enough problems without this? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Apr 13 - 07:10 PM Shane had nothing to do with this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: gnu Date: 22 Apr 13 - 08:38 PM Odd about the timing, innit? The past bullshit about the past terrorists getting into the US thru Canada and now the link with these guys becoming Yanks by first being Canucks? One might think our immigration system is corrupt? No shit!??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Greg F. Date: 22 Apr 13 - 09:03 PM Boy, could that CBC story have used more weasel-words to try to link this to al Qaeda with absolutely no evidence or substantiation?? They starting to model themselves on Fox? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Apr 13 - 01:30 AM Greg, CBC did not make the link. The police charges refer to them working with "a terrorist organisation". That was identified by the police as Al Qaeda in Iran. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Apr 13 - 02:34 AM www.guardian.co.uk › World news › Canada 7 hours ago – Two arrested in Canada over alleged passenger train terrorist plot. Police say men had direction and guidance from al-Qaida elements in Iran |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: gnu Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:26 AM If the RCMP say it's so, it's so. I'll bet this was sniffed out by Cuddles! (Google "Sgt. Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted" if you ain't a Canuck.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Jack the Sailor Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:30 AM The RCMP hasn't been the same since Gordon Pincent went off to make movies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: gnu Date: 23 Apr 13 - 07:05 AM Pincent, Broadfoot, Cuddles, The Newfoundland Firing Squad on the $50... sad indeed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: bobad Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:07 AM Backgrounder on al-Qaeda in Iran: CBC News |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Apr 13 - 12:10 PM In 2004 Al Qaeda Islamists exploded train bombs in Madrid. They killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Apr 13 - 12:44 PM I'm so glad they prevented an attack. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Greg F. Date: 23 Apr 13 - 02:11 PM n 2004 Al Qaeda Islamists exploded train bombs in Madrid. They killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. Uh huh. And? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Apr 13 - 02:40 PM Yes Greg. Who cares, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Greg F. Date: 23 Apr 13 - 03:05 PM You said it, not me. Question was why are you telling us, one more time, things we already know & that happened a decade ago?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Apr 13 - 06:39 PM It was relevant to the discussion Greg, unlike any of your posts which contain just empty pointless abuse and nothing else of any worth or interest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: gnu Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:03 PM Yer wasting valuable time for Cuddles and his master. Keep that up an The Special Eds might investigate yer asses! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Greg F. Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:26 PM It was relevant to the discussion Greg How? What's next, the Rape of Nanking & the Punic Wars? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: bobad Date: 24 Apr 13 - 06:53 PM Oh well, I guess he's free to go then: "One of two men accused of an al-Qaeda-directed plot to derail a Via Rail passenger train appeared to question the authority of a Toronto court on Wednesday, saying that the Criminal Code should not apply to him because it's "not a holy book." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Canada stops RR attack From: Songwronger Date: 24 Apr 13 - 11:51 PM Canadian government unveils "terror plot" as it adopts draconian new law 24 April 2013 Canadian authorities boasted Monday afternoon that, working in concert with the FBI and other US national security agencies, they had broken up a terrorist conspiracy involving an Iranian-based al-Qaeda cell. The announcement, made at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) press conference, came just as the House of Commons was set to debate new anti-terrorism legislation that would give the state draconian new powers. Two men, 30 year-old Chiheb Esseghaier, and 35 year-old, Raed Jaser, have since been charged with grave terrorist offences—charges that they vehemently deny. Yet the RCMP and Stephen Harper's Conservative government have provided virtually no information about the alleged plot, beyond saying that the men carried out surveillance of Toronto's railway network with a view to bombing or derailing a New York-bound passenger train. The little that has been revealed leaves no doubt that the timing of the arrests was a calculated political decision, made in close consultation with the highest levels of the US government, and with the aim of stampeding the public on both sides of the border into accepting police-state measures. At Monday's press conference, the RCMP conceded that there had never been an imminent threat of a terrorist attack or even a definite plan for an attack, and that Esseghaier and Jaser have long been in the police's sights...... In 2006, the RCMP staged the dramatic arrest of 18 people, almost all of them young people and some not even 18, whom they accused of preparing extensive terrorist attacks, including blowing up the parliament buildings. It subsequently emerged that the two most incriminating actions of the "Toronto 18" had been facilitated by police provocateurs. One police agent had provided the arms instruction at a "terrorist training camp," while another had provided phony bomb-making ingredients. Nevertheless, eleven of the eighteen were convicted and most of these given lengthy prison terms. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/24/cana-a24.html So have they ripped the throats out of the Canadian patsies yet so they can't talk? |
