Canadian Authorities Foil Major Terror Plot

Canada foils 'major terrorist attack'

Al Jazeera correspondent says arrests made in connection with plot that was unearthed by Canadian and US investigators.

Canadian authorities have foiled "a major terrorist attack" in the country’s capital, Toronto.

Canadian police and intelligence agencies said the operation was conducted in co-ordination with the US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak, reporting from Toronto's Pearson Airport, said that arrests have been made.

"They have been watching suspects for a year," Lak said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/2013422193533322659.html

More info will be available soon, hopefully 🙂

also, Toronto is not Canada's capital...

Good job Canada.

Didn't know you had it in you.

Two charged over al-Qaeda-supported terror plot to attack VIA passenger train: RCMP

Two suspects are in custody, one from Ontario and one from Quebec, 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, attended by several prominent Muslim community leaders, 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.

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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.

Last week, the RCMP said it was looking into whether a Canadian, Mahad Dhore, had died while taking part in a suicide attack on the courts in the Somali capital Mogadshu. The York University student left Toronto in 2009 and allegedly joined the armed Islamist group Al Shabab.

The RCMP has also been investigating two young classmates from London, Ont., who died in Algeria in January while apparently taking part in a terrorist attack at a gas plant. A third member of the circle is imprisoned in Mauritania on charges he had been recruited to fight with Al Qaeda in Mali.

Testifying last month before a Parliamentary committee, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service official said the terrorist threat had become more diffuse, with regional affiliates playing a greater role as the core of Al Qaeda had been diminished.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/22/arrests-made-in-ontario-rcmp-counter-terrorism-investigation/

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
Good job Canada.

Didn't know you had it in you.

its only the french that can stop us!

Ca-Na-Da, Ca-Na-Da, Ca-Na-Da!!!!!!!

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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The 11-18 people arrested in the previous terror plot had a lot of issues with possible entrapment (which doesn't exist in Canada), hopefully such issues aren't relevant here.

I read a cracked article that Canada has some of the best soldiers on the planet:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20301_the-5-most-secretly-badass-countries.html

Originally posted by Major_Lexington
I read a cracked article that Canada has some of the best soldiers on the planet:

start many fights with em? 😄

i dont get it.

its canada. who cares?

Originally posted by focus4chumps
i dont get it.

its canada. who cares?

Nice work, indeed.

Originally posted by focus4chumps
i dont get it.

its canada. who cares?

number of backpacks successfully exploded in Canada?

No one knows.

Because when backpacks explode in Canada, nobody cares.

We actually prefer fanny packs.

Just saying.

I've heard exploding fanny packs are quite the problem in Canada.

if a backpack explodes in canada and no american is there to hear it, did it make a sound?

I guess Al-Qaeda has figured out how to make explosives out of maple syrup

A terrorist's worst nightmare

^ Looks scary alright!