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| The Ottawa Three Becomes The Ottawa Four |
| 2010-08-27 |
| A fourth person, an Ottawa resident, has been arrested in relation to a terrorism case allegedly plotting to set off homemade bombs in the national capital region. According to Crown attorney David McKercher, the person was arrested and not charged. Friday morning, Sher — a former Canadian Idol participant — appeared in court in Ottawa to face accusations that he participated in the allged plot. He was charged with conspiracy to facilitate terrorist activity. In a press conference Thursday, RCMP accused the three men arrested at that time of participating in a terror group that "posed a real and serious threat to the citizens of the National Capital Region and Canada's national security," according to Chief Supt. Serge Therriault. Few details have been revealed about the case, which is still developing, but RCMP officers revealed they seized about 50 electronic circuit boards to make what they say were home-made bombs. Attacks would have taken place in about three months, they alleged. On Esterlawn Private in Carlingwood, police were on hand from 6:30 that morning, shocking neighbours who said the couple who lived at the house were a devout Muslim couple, with a baby, who kept to themselves. devout muslim, check. isolated, check. so far right on target for homegrown terrorists. Were I a neighbour I'd be expecting it, not "shocked". A neighbour who lives next door told CTV Ottawa she often heard the couple chanting in prayer. constant praying, check and done. "That's the only thing I've ever heard," said the woman, who would only identify herself as Louise. a number of louise's neighbours report hearing frequent loud arguments as well as the chanting. Sher, a health care worker, made his awkward 2008 appearance on Canadian Idol as a joke, his friends told media. He performed Avril Lavigne's 'Complicated' for judges while stiffly dancing. his performance is da bomb. A must-see. Really. note he says he came to canada in 2005 from pakistain - his family says he was born in Montreal. A must see Better watch before the franchise Idol pulls this thing Sher graduated from medical school at McGill University in 2005 and did his residency in pathology at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. He had been on his new job about 4 weeks as a pathologist at the St. Thomas Elgin General hospital. Former CSIS agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya said professional backgrounds are not surprising, in contrast to popular belief that terrorism arises out of being poor or disenfranchised. "Unfortunately, this is sort of a textbook copy of the profile that usually we would expect," Juneau-Katsuya told CTV's Canada AM during a telephone interview from Ottawa on Friday morning. That's because you need an education and free time to become radicalized. If you're poor and have no resources you spend almost all of your time trying to stay alive. |
| Posted by:Swanimote |
| #1 RELATED > TOPIX + NEWS KERALA > AL QAEDA TERROR PLOT IN CANADA HAD LINKS TO PAKISTAN [AFPAK + Iran + Dubai]. First plot to detonate random variable bombs per se on Canadian soil, while is also second plot on Canada since the "TORONTO 18" PLOT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-27 23:35 |