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Canuck hard boyz have possible connections in lots o' places
The arrest of 17 terrorism suspects in Canada is part of a continuing, multi-national probe into suspected terrorist cells in at least seven countries, a U.S. counter-terrorism official confirmed Sunday.The senior U.S. law enforcement official said authorities are combing through evidence seized during raids in Canada this weekend to look for possible connections between the 17 suspects arrested Friday and at least 18 other Islamist militants who have been arrested in locations including the United States, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Britain, Denmark and Sweden. The investigation began as separate probes into what authorities believed were localized cells of militant Muslim young men, who shared an interest in radical ideology on the Internet in various countries and, to a lesser extent, in local mosques and training camps. But over the past year, the counter-terrorism authorities of those countries began to see connections among the cells, in part through electronic surveillance of phone calls and Internet correspondence, as well as ground surveillance of individual suspects, several U.S. officials said in interviews Sunday. "The case is a very good example of how things work in the post 9/11 world. In this case law enforcement and intelligence services from half a dozen places coordinated daily during a very complex investigation," said the U.S. law enforcement official. "It involved surveillances (of) every mode of travel and crossed multiple borders. Each set of arrests were coordinated between all agencies and considered carefully for how they might effect the ongoing probe." Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-06-05 |
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