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Canucks met with US hard boyz to plan attacks
Seventeen suspected terrorists arrested overnight in Canada may have been on the verge of launching a series of massive bomb attacks in Ontario. And they may have had ties to two Metro-Atlanta men who are already in federal custody suspected of plotting with some of the Canadians to attack targets in the U.S.The FBI believes that in March, 2005, the two Metro Atlanta men, Syed Ahmed and Ehsanul Sadequee, met with some of the suspected terrorists in Canada during seven days of meetings to discuss targets across North America. Ahmed, a Georgia Tech engineering student, admitted it, according to the FBI, when he was arrested in March, 2006. The FBI says that Ahmed admitted taking a Greyhound bus out of Atlanta a year earlier his friend, Sadequee, and they went to Canada and met regularly with at least three, like-minded Islamic extremists to discuss attacking U.S. oil refineries, military bases and other targets in the U.S. So, Canadian authorities moved in Friday night, and stopped, they say, a potentially massive series of bomb attacks. Terror expert Neil Livingstone says the case is a reminder -- that terrorists from all over the world can easily enter the U.S. from Canada. "If this group is out there, there are bound to be others that we haven't uncovered yet that we don't know about,â Livingstone told NBC News, âand they are going to continue to plot and to organize and to acquire explosives. And, ultimately, they are going to cross the border and carry out some sort of attack here." Authorities in the U.S. and Canada believe the suspects made up a terrorist cell that was homegrown, and inspired by Al-Qaeda, but had no direct ties to it. The Associated Press reports that Ahmedâs court-appointed attorney, Jack Martin of Atlanta, said he does not know if there was any connection between Ahmed and the Canadian suspects. Ahmed was arrested in March, 2006, and a federal Grand Jury indicted him in April -â the only international terrorism indictment ever in Georgia. Sadequee was taken into custody in April, 2006. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-06-05 |
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