Canada thwarts 'major terrorist attack' with arrests: CBC

[Cail]

(Reuters) - Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce multiple arrests on Monday after an operation to thwart a "major terrorist attack," the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing unidentified "highly placed" sources.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement that they would provide details about a "national security criminal investigation" at a news conference at 3:30 p.m. ET

The statement, which gave no details of arrests, said security forces had conducted joint operations in Toronto and in Montreal, Canada's two biggest cities.

U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings. CBC said the operations was conducted with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

The arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January.

It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of a group of more than a dozen Toronto-area men accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets.

[bluefan]

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[Cail]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...c-arrests.html

Another more detailed article from the CBC. No official statement yet.

[Rhyis.]

CSIS finally doing something. Huzzah.

[Cail]

Canadian authorities have arrested two men accused of plotting to attack a passenger train in an al Qaeda-supported plot, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday.

Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, are accused of conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway train, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. While the suspects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was never in imminent danger, police told reporters.

Police said the suspects "were receiving support from al Qaeda elements in Iran."

The support entailed direction and guidance, police said.

The suspects, who are not Canadian citizens, are scheduled to make their first court appearance on Tuesday, police said.

They are charged with conspiring to carry out an attack against, and conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group, police said in a statement.

News of the arrests came the same day Canada's parliament debated an anti-terrorism bill.

An official with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told CNN that there is no link between the Canadian investigation and the Boston bomb attack, and added there was no known link with the Canadians involved in the terror attack on the Algerian gas plant in January.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation quoted "highly placed sources" as saying the suspects were under surveillance for more than a year.

The CBC reported that the investigation was "part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

[Byrthnoth]

>:/

When I saw the blurb, I was hoping the extended version would end up being:

Mounties thwart terrorist attempt to poison strategic maple syrup reserve with dirty bomb

Canada, I am disappoint. I guess it's cool that people didn't die though.

[Mazmaz]

al-Qaeda elements in Iran.

That doesn't even make sense.

[Vaspinne]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln...qqk0o1_500.jpg

[FifthElement]

al-Qaeda elements in Iran.

That doesn't even make sense.

Finally, someone who's educated and doesn't eat up the shit they're fed by government/media

[tyven]

FifthElement is new best poster on BG. INFOWARS FOR LIFE

[FifthElement]

Iranian Al'Qaeda is far more retarded than quoting Infowars collating images from the web. Way to genius.

[tyven]

Iranian Al'Qaeda is far more retarded than quoting Infowars collating images from the web. Way to genius.

i guess you are too new to understand the glory of your statement about mazmaz, my bad

[Cail]

FifthElement is new best poster on BG. INFOWARS FOR LIFE

Way to genius

[FifthElement]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/ass...al-gallery.jpg
Look at this crazy terrorist, guns a blazing and everything! Suicide bomber!! ISLAMIC TERRORIST.

No, it's a kid climbing out of a boat before being shot in the neck.

Americans.

[Correction]

Way to genius

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[Cail]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/ass...al-gallery.jpg
Look at this crazy terrorist, guns a blazing and everything! Suicide bomber!! ISLAMIC TERRORIST.

No, it's a kid climbing out of a boat before being shot in the neck.

Americans.

Wrong thread. Way to genius.

[tyven]

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someone get abandon in here stat

[FifthElement]

Just another example of "Iranian Al'Qaeda" logic. It's government and/or media feeding you crap. Iranian Al'Qaeda is like a Nazi Jew, it doesn't work.

[Correction]

Just another example of "Iranian Al'Qaeda" logic. It's government and/or media feeding you crap. Iranian Al'Qaeda is like a Nazi Jew, it doesn't work.

Hear that? It's nobody disputing this. You called Mazmaz educated. That's the problem.

I'm too nice to people I think.

[FifthElement]

I dunno, anyone who sees that term and doesn't have alarm bells ringing is uneducated and my hopes for people here aren't very high. I'm glad there's at least one person here who saw it is all.