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| Canadian plot began in a chat room |
| 2006-06-05 |
| For most Canadians, ammonium nitrate — even after it was used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, including dozens of kids in a daycare centre —is nothing much more than a commonly used plant fertilizer. Farmers buy and use it by the tonne, mixing it into the soil to ensure a bountiful crop. But mix ammonium nitrate with the inflammatory rhetoric of an Internet chat room, and it instantly acquires the potential to become something entirely different, needing only the addition of a little fuel oil to turn it into a lethal bomb. So when a shadowy group of disaffected urban youth began talking in an Internet chat room in the fall of 2004 espousing anti-Western views, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening. The spy agency, and an alphabet soup of other security agencies across the continent, closely monitor such sites, where talk may sometimes turn to buildings and bombs and bringing global jihad home to North America, to Canada. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #9 The brainwashing is just one step along the way. The first steps are always taken at home, with the parents "blessing". Remember folks, the imams and mullahs aren't sending their own kids out with bomb vests strapped on. Almost 99% of these suicidal mass murderers come from the homes of those ever-beloved Moderate Muslims™. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-05 20:23 |
| #8 It was after the indocrination and brainwashing that they became "unhappy" and "depressed" The brainwashing is just one step along the way. The first steps are always taken at home, with the parents "blessing". |
| Posted by: Rafael 2006-06-05 13:57 |
| #7 There was nothing "disaffected" about these 'youths' until their mentor mullah man introduced them to the wahabbi school of thought. It was after the indocrination and brainwashing that they became "unhappy" and "depressed" - understandable. Dress strangely, isolate yourselves from your more moderate friends and spout drivel. That can lead to isolation all right. "Disaffected?" No. |
| Posted by: Shuns Uleating3851 2006-06-05 13:01 |
| #6 ANFO has been used in the blasting/mining industry for decades. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-06-05 12:30 |
| #5 High grade ammonium nitrate and fuel was used not only in OK City, but at the Beirut Marine barracks, orchestrated by Mugniyeh. Any chance they can track where they got the bomb recipe and see if there is a greater ME connection? |
| Posted by: Danielle 2006-06-05 12:27 |
| #4 Arguably, not calling them for what they are does not fool anybody other than those wishing to be fooled. This approach seems to limit the inevitable PC blowback that in calling these terrorist muslims seems to overshadow the real story and mitigate their activity. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck.... |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-05 09:35 |
| #3 So when a shadowy group of disaffected urban youth The Media just won't call them what they are. Islamic Jihadis. Same way in France, it's always "dissafected youth". The Canadian Government official interviewed yesterday even went so far as to say this had nothing to do with religion but strictly political in nature. Bugwits. Enjoy your dhimmitude. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2006-06-05 07:34 |
| #2 These jihadis were so ideologically empowered, so triumpalists that they didn't bother to hide their jihad. |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-06-05 06:45 |
| #1 Not exactly attending JROTC-ROTC drill, sports, Spring Break, or building a Saturn V working science rocket, etal. now are they. DECENT PANTY RAID OR GREEN BEER??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-05 00:40 |