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| CT blog notes Toronto hard boyz may have had it in for a nuclear plant |
| 2006-06-05 |
| "A terror attack potentially three times more devastating than the Oklahoma City bombing has been averted," according to the latest report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Seventeen people have been arrested to date, and you can see a picture (below) of some of the items seized, as displayed in a news conference today. In addition to Jeff Imm's post below, you'll find excellent coverage on Michelle Malkin's site and at ThreatsWatch, where Steve Schippert notes that it was a Canadian intelligence Internet surveilance program that sparked the investigation into this group, not unlike America's own NSA program which is now under scrutiny. Scott Newark, Canadian intel veteran who once worked for Steven Emerson, informs me that some arrests were near a nuclear power plant, and it's apparently one of the world's largest, which should really raise a few neck hairs. Here is a description of the plant: Located on the shores of Lake Ontario just east of Toronto and nestled in the community of Pickering, is one of the world’s largest nuclear generating facilities consisting of the Pickering A and Pickering B Nuclear Generating Stations. Each station has four CANDU (CANadian Deuterium Uranium) reactor units and together they have a total output of 4,120 megawatts (MW), enough to serve a city of two million people. UPDATE, 6/4: CT Blog fan Maureen Chill wrote me with great information, starting with an interesting blog post: "The father of one of the accused, Shareef Abdelhaleen, is an Egyptian immigrant who came to Canada with his son 20 years ago. He works as an engineer on contract at Atomic Energy of Canada." And that blogger quotes a report that Mr. Abdelhaleen posted bail for another jailed militant who met OBL in Sudan. Maureen also notes the public support for the arrestees by Imam Aly Hindy, who preaches at a Mosque founded by an Al-Qaida suspect, is a good friend of the infamous Khadr family, and...is a former engineer with Ontario Hydro, which manages the Pickering nuclear plant. Maureen also reminds me of a 2003 Canadian bust, in which the RCMP netted 19 terror suspects in Toronto: "Most of those arrested were students or refugee claimants and all were born in Pakistan... One of the men being investigated was enrolled in a Toronto flight school. Training involved flying over the Pickering nuclear power plant...Two others were once found loitering outside the Pickering facility before dawn..." Curiouser and curiouser.... |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 *Coffee Alert* ed you owe me windex and paper towels.. wasn't expecting thatr sage »:-) |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-05 11:43 |
| #1 Their mistake was not joining the Green Party first. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-06-05 10:57 |