Saturday, June 3, 2006
Terror arrests in Canada. Apparently opposition to the Iraq War isn't a guarantee of protection from violent Jihad.
CNews: Major terror bust in Ontario
Three tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used fertilizer used to make explosives, were recovered by police, who say that's three times the amount used in the bombing of a government building in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.
"It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack," RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell told a news conference.
"If I can put this in context for you, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was completed with only one tonne of ammonium nitrate."...
...Of the adults, six are from Mississauga, just outside Toronto; four are from Toronto itself and two are from Kingston in the eastern part of the province.
Most were Canadian citizens or residents. Police described them as coming from a broad "strata" of society. Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed. The adults range in age from 19 to 43...
Names of the 12 adults arrested. There were more, but five minors' names are not released.
Analysis of the general threat here: Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists? [via LGF]
There are very few excuses here. These people are certainly persecuted by that good old infamous Canadian racism and intolerance, they are not desperately impoverished, and the only oppression they could possibly be the victims of are purely the variety that exists in their own heads.
Yet here they are with three tons of explosives and a plan to use them.
Mel:
Canada has troops in Afghanistan. That alone is cause enough for some of these cretins, one of whom, at least, claimed in a meeting at his mosque, that Canadian soldiers were raping Afghan women.
And if there were no Canadian troops in Afghanistan, they could always use Canada's role in helping the newly founded State of Israel to gain entry to the UN.