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Great White North
Arrests made in Canadian terror plot
2013-04-22
Several arrests have apparently been made following an RCMP counter-terrorism investigation in Ontario. No details have yet been released, but Toronto community leaders have been invited to a briefing. The arrests relate to a terror plot in Canada.

The 2:30 p.m. background briefing was to be followed by a news conference near Toronto's Pearson airport. In recent years, police have made a point of briefing community leaders before announcing terror arrests.

The arrests come at a time of heightened public concern over terrorism following the bombings in Boston as well as recent revelations over the involvement of radicalized Canadian youths in overseas terrorist groups.
Posted by:tipper

#7  ..wait till they print the full names. It's very Anglo-Saxon/Northern European to have only two, self and family.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-22 17:03  

#6  The PC spin machine must be due for an oil change at the rate it's had to spin these days.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-04-22 17:03  

#5  The RCMP said at an afternoon news conference that Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, had received "direction and "guidance" from "al-Qaeda elements" in Iran, but there is no indication they were "state sponsored."

Neither is a Canadian citizen. The RCMP would not identify their nationalities or say how long they had been in the country.

Canadian media reported the men are Tunisian.

Damn lost my 10 dollars.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-22 16:43  

#4  No names, no motive.

I bet 10 dollars one's called Mohamed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-22 16:37  

#3  update
Posted by: tipper   2013-04-22 16:10  

#2  Damned Quakers.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2013-04-22 14:53  

#1  Think there's a religous component?
Posted by: AlanC   2013-04-22 14:45  

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