RCMP foiled dozen plots in past two years - Globe & Mail

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RCMP foiled dozen plots in past two years

JEFF SALLOT AND BRIAN LAGHI
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

"OTTAWA — The RCMP has quietly broken up at least a dozen terrorist groups in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.

"We have completed 12 disruptions of national-level terrorist groups across the country," the Mounties say in briefing notes prepared for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.

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The briefing notes, released to The Globe under the Access to Information Act, are part of the transition book prepared by the RCMP for Mr. Day when the Conservatives formed a new government in February.

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Illustrating this reduced threat, the RCMP document says, is "the fact there has not been a border-related national security threat against either the government of Canada or the United States or the general population" since the two countries established Integrated Border Enforcement Teams.

Disruptive tactics can take many forms, including interdiction of persons or matériel at border points, denial of charitable status to front groups, deportation of non-citizens on security grounds, or "defensive actions as a result of threat assessment," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. CSIS, the RCMP and other agencies "have a duty to prevent and disrupt terrorist acts . . . before these individuals have the opportunity to carry out their terrorist plans.""

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1. Because it is terrorism.. disruption is the most important thing. Saves

lives when no other alternative.

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2. Nearly as many as the rogue nation to its south has fostered.

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3. I don't understand...

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4. The US under Bush is a terrorist state, pure and simple.