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| Canadian terrorists named |
| 2013-04-02 |
| CBC News says it has identified the two Canadians involved in January's deadly terrorist attack at an isolated Algerian gas plant. Citing unidentified sources, the news outlet says Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, high school friends who were both from London, Ont., were the Canadians whose bodies were found amidst the carnage. CBC says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was asking questions about both men at one point after a family member contacted authorities in 2007 with concerns that the pair were associating with the wrong crowd. But the report says CSIS did not have the two men, who were thought to be in their mid-20s, under surveillance when they left Canada for Algeria sometime last year. The report also says it has learned that two other individuals from the London area traveled to Algeria with Medlej and Katsiroubas, but it isn't known if they were involved in the gas plant attack or if they're even alive. Sgt. Greg Cox, a spokesman for the RCMP, says the force's investigation into Canadian involvement in the attack continues and added that no further information would be provided at present. At least 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed in the four-day siege of the natural gas plant that ended when the Algerian military stormed the energy complex. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 update Mr. Juneau-Katsuya noted that in the 1990s, Algerian extremists “running away from the French and Algerian authorities” set up in Montreal to plan and collect money to send back home. The Algeria attack and a deadly 2012 bombing in Bulgaria that was linked to a man with a Canadian passport prompted the recent drafting of a law to strip Canadian citizenship from dual-citizens engaging in terrorism. “If a citizen is convicted of serious terrorist offences, if they take up arms against Canada or if they are convicted of high treason, that individual has severed the bonds of loyalty which is the basis of their citizenship,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told a parliamentary committee last month. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-04-02 01:14 |