UPDATED – see below
He’ll get to it when he starts reading “the articles”.
A year after the arrests of the 17 so-called “alleged” jihadists in Ontario last year, the legal case against them has barely started. Meanwhile, a de-classified version of a Canadian intelligence report, released this week under Access to Information, sheds only little light on what’s going on and mostly serves as a glimpse into how they perceive the problem themselves. Click here to read it yourself (PDF).
As shallow as the report is though, note how there’s now way, as I see it, that Jack Layton of the you’ve got to be kidding party could possible have read this report or anything else like it, nor could anyone at the CBC have read it, nor the Toronto Star, nor many Liberals —all of who seem to deny the very existence of the problem, at least as anything but proof, to them, that Canada must increase its social program spending and multi-cult hug-fest (and of course to secure those carbon taxes on “industry”, codify more gay rights, secure that anti-beer & popcorn state-run daycare bureaucracy, and so on).
The National Post has | good | extended | coverage today in a two-page spread, including analysis by Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell of the RCMP, which is sure to make heads explode at the state-run CBC division of Canada’s liberals, where they still call the global war on terror the “so-called war on terror”; and at the leftist Toronto Star where columnists call it “George Bush’s war on terror”, in their ongoing abject agenda-driven insult to the intelligence of Canadians. (I’m still not sure whose side they’re on, but it doesn’t feel like “Canada’s”).
Here’s some highlights of the articles in the NP today:
[…] A year after the Toronto arrests, the main terrorist threat facing Canada is “externally influenced homegrown radicalism,” Assist. Comm. McDonell said.
One of those foreign influences is Pakistan.
Since the arrests, the RCMP has been probing the Toronto group’s alleged links to that country. The investigation has not tied the Toronto group directly to al-Qaeda, but some of the suspects are believed to have close ties to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the most important al-Qaeda proxy in Pakistan.
“I think we’re all, ourselves and our allies — in understanding this phenomenon that is domestic radicalization and the speed in which it works — we’re looking at the behaviours of those that have been apprehended to date, those that we’re all watching and then the links that they have to other countries,” Assist. Comm. McDonell said.
“It is a global threat, so we’re trying to understand. And as with anything else, trying to lay down the indicative markers that could pre-warn us to an attack. So the international travel is certainly up there, and international communications. It’s a global threat. Some of the angst, if you will, is generated from countries other than Canada.” […]
The state-run CBC and the Toronto Star and other far-left liberals and socialists disagree with the experts. They’re not “deniers” or “war-on-terror-o-phobes” though—they just have a diff’rent point of view. Kumbaya. Hugs.
[…] The so-called Toronto 17 are accused of plotting to explode truck bombs in downtown Toronto and take hostages on Parliament Hill until the government agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
But a de-classified version of a Canadian intelligence report, released this week under the Access to Information Act, says that ending the fighting in Afghanistan will not eliminate the current terrorist threat.
“While a resolution of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq could decrease support for jihad and remove what is currently a key component for radicalization and recruitment, this will not remove the threat,” it says. […]
Gee. The World Trade Towers were destroyed by Islamist jihadists prior to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, if I recall correctly. And so were a dozen other global terrorist acts. So, as measured as it is, that’s an odd and rather Utopian assessment. I think what will “remove the threat” is to kill the terrorists as a general matter; and let them know, under no uncertain terms, we in the entire west, fully united—in a fashion totally unlike the push by Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheahan, Jack Layton, most NDP’ers, Rosie O’Donnell, and Sean Penn, and most other socialists, liberals, and al-Qaeda, will not ever, ever give up fighting them to the death.
A CSIS intelligence report released this week says Canada has a “long history” of Islamist and other forms of extremism. But while in the past it revolved around things like raising money and recruiting, today’s extremists are prepared to carry out terrorist attacks in Canada, the report says.
The study adds that, “individuals have been radicalized in Canada and recruited to participate in terrorist activity both in Canada and abroad, as well as to fight in Iraq.”
Islamist extremists “believe they are at war with the West and have brought the fight to the West, seeing Canada and other Western countries as legitimate targets where terrorist acts can be planned and executed,” it says.
Another newly released intelligence report, this one by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, says al-Qaeda now views Canada as “a legitimate, but not highest priority, target.”
Well then. No probs. Let’s get on it after we control Earth’s climate.
EXTRA
Three Arrested, 1 Sought in Terror Plot on New York City’s JFK Airport
NEW YORK — A suspected terrorist cell planned a “chilling” attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday.
Three men were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad on Saturday.
[…] Two other men, Abdul Kadir of Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, are in custody in Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought in Trinidad.
[…] Kadir, a Muslim and former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for “terrorist operations,” according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Guyana and Trinidad are cities in New Jersey.
EXTRA EXTRA:
U.S. fires at al Qaeda target in Somalia
(CNN)—A U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of northern Somalia Friday fired on a suspected al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, sources confirmed to CNN.
There was no immediate word on the results of the attack, which was carried out using one of the destroyer’s 5-inch guns.
U.S. officials have long suspected that some of those responsible for the embassy attacks have been hiding in the war-torn East African country. (Map)
The nearly simultaneous bombings on August 7, 1998, killed 213 people in Nairobi, Kenya, and 11 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Among the dead in Nairobi were 12 Americans.
Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia are towns in Montana.
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