Canada Identifies 19 Terror Arrestees

[Nottingham]

Canada Identifies 19 Terror Arrestees
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Big News Network.com Sunday 31st August, 2003

Canadian immigration authorities named the 19 Pakistani arrestees, who have sparked fears of Islamic plots for attacks in Canada.

Canadian anti-terrorism investigators said the network displayed a suspicious pattern of behavior, including living in clusters, studying flight training, and visiting a nuclear power plant late at night.

According to Toronto's National Post, a security unit composed of RCMP and immigration officials also tied the group, to the theft of a gauge containing radioactive Cesium-137, considered a likely component of a so-called dirty bomb.

The men, who came to Canada on fraudulent visas and lived in the Toronto area, were scheduled to appear in court next week.

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http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=2dc0b1739421b45c

Isn't amazing How well the Canadians do in arresting these terrorists unlike Aschcroft! :bounce:

[Newsjock]

1. Arrests are bogus -- no connection to terror (link)

Beware the National Post...
http://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=89956

... However, the case of the terrorists among us began to unravel almost as soon as the detention reviews began, with the RCMP and Citizenship and Immigration Canada distancing themselves from the idea that the men posed a clear threat to security.

The RCMP, which is just beginning to sift through 25 boxes of files and 30 computers seized in the raid that netted the 19 men, said this week there is no evidence that Canada's national security is at risk. Immigration officials underlined that they are investigating only the possibility of such threats.

"I can comfortably say there is no known threat; what is being investigated is a reasonable suspicion," said Giovanna Gatti, spokesperson with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. "It's taken the spin that it has taken in the media for whatever reason."

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030830.uterr0830/BNStory/National/