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Canada dismantles 'terror cell'
2005-11-03
Sneer quotes in the original.
Canada's spy agency has revealed that it has dismantled a suspected terrorist cell last year in Toronto that included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, The National Post has reported. The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants alleged to be members of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, a radical Islamic group, Larry Brooks, Canadian Security Intelligence Service chief of counterterrorism for the Toronto region, told delegates at a closed-door security meeting this week.
A closed-door super-secret security meeting, you say? Then why are we hearing anything about it?
Among them was a former al-Qaeda training camp instructor who had studied bomb-making at Osama bin Laden's Al Farooq and Khaldun training camps in eastern Afghanistan, Brooks said, according to the report. Three of the men, who had entered Canada from the United States, were arrested and deported back to the United States in recent months. The alleged bomb-maker left voluntarily in March, 2004, after investigators confronted him. He had entered Canada in 1998 using a forged Saudi passport, the report said.
Where did he go when he left Canada?
Posted by:Cromotle Whert1051

#5  Immediately after the 9/11 atrocities, fearing reprisals, a lot of muslims left the US. If memory serves me correctly, 10,000 Pakistanis alone left (many illegals, many claiming asylum) and Canada was the favorite destination. Looks like some terrorist cells also relocated to a neighborhood where the heat was not on.
Posted by: ed   2005-11-03 15:13  

#4  And if they were expelled from the US, why would Canada accept them?

Because Canada doesn't care?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-11-03 13:31  

#3  Excellent question Trailing Wife. Maybe we should ring up the United States Bureau of Deportation and inquire. Oh, there is no Bureau of Deportation? There are no deportations you say? Well I guess than answers the question.
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-11-03 13:29  

#2  The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants alleged to be members of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat ...Three of the men, who had entered Canada from the United States

That makes no sense. Why would Algerians claim refuge from the USA, unless we had expelled them? And if they were expelled from the US, why would Canada accept them?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-11-03 13:15  

#1  Well where do you think he went???? RIGHT OVER THE BORDER TO BOMB SHIT HERE!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2005-11-03 12:44  

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