Major terrorist attack thwarted in Canada

[fan_since79]

Expect to hear the names of the suspects later today.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/22/pol-terror-plot-ontario-quebec-arrests.html

 

 

[Ray McKigney]

I love it when the police thwart criminals.

[gotbeer]

Will be interesting to hear the details.  Was it a US target, or Canadian?  

[Ray McKigney]

The article didn't have many details. Looks like officials are going to reveal that stuff during the press conference.

[fan_since79]

Will be interesting to hear the details.  Was it a US target, or Canadian?  

A rail line between Toronto and New York City, according to Reuters.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/us-arrests-cbc-idUSBRE93L0YW20130422

[LBHalos17]

There are a lot of seemingly-minor plots thwarted that are never given media coverage

[fan_since79]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/two-arrested-after-rcmp-foil-alleged-terror-plot-to-derail-via-rail-train-1.1248858

 

 

The RCMP have arrested two people in connection with an alleged al-Qaeda-backed terror plot to derail a Via Rail passenger train.

CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported earlier Monday that the train the suspects were targeting would have been travelling from New York to Toronto, and the attack would have occurred on the Canadian side of the border. The RCMP would not confirm the targeted train’s route.

 

Police identified the suspects as Chiheb Esseghaier, a resident of Montreal and Raed Jaser, a resident of Toronto. They were arrested Monday morning and are facing criminal charges including conspiracy 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.

 

...According to Malizia (RCMP Commissioner James Malizia), the plot was supported by “al Qaeda elements in Iran.” He did not offer further details.
 

[fan_since79]

One of the plots uncovered by the RCMP and other agencies was a planned bombing of a passenger train on the bridge that connects Canada and the United States at Niagara Falls, a police source says.

 

“The plan was to take out a train with passengers on board and the crossing trestle,” said a source. “It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage.”

 

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/22/feds-thwarted-major-terrorist-attack-report

[Ray McKigney]

They should be f*ckin' killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

[fan_since79]

 

Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls

[bdavis621]

So sad we have to live in a world where you have to watch every move. No one is safe anymore.

[Brandon]

I prefer to know the facts and not get emotional.

Then just straight murk them and not waste taxpayer money. F*ck a cell.and food.

[Tank]

So sad we have to live in a world where you have to watch every move. No one is safe anymore.

Which has resulted in putting massive amounts of video cameras everywhere, which brings up privacy issues.

[gotbeer]

Hey now.  Who knows.  Maybe they were trying to blow up the train to see if anyone walks away unscratched.

 

 

 

 

Anyone?  Anyone?  

[LBHalos17]

More video cameras (for evidence after the fact), or more open-carry/CCW (to possibly stop/interrupt an incident)?

 

I just think the media does a dis-service by not giving these successes more air-time.  The more that people realize there are MANY active threats going-on, the more likely we are to report suspicious activity to prevent incidents.

[Brandon]

I'm cool with cameras in open or public locations. They pretty much are anyway.

[gotbeer]

I'm cool with cameras in open or public locations. They pretty much are anyway.

 

 

Yeah, it was interesting after the Boston Bombing, the amount of cameras countries like Britain had in public, compared to the U.S.

[mtangelsfan]

Hey now.  Who knows.  Maybe they were trying to blow up the train to see if anyone walks away unscratched.

 

 

 

 

Anyone?  Anyone?  

"They called me Mr. Glass"

[fan_since79]

Snapshot of the two terrorists:

 

 

Chiheb Esseghaier, the younger of two men charged in the al Qaeda train plot, is a Tunisian-born PhD student at a Université du Québec nanotechnology lab who was threatened with expulsion for his disruptive behaviour and strict religious views that alienated his colleagues.

One colleague at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Varennes, Que., described Mr. Esseghaier, 30, as “a brainwashed person, basically,” who tore down posters he did not approve of, and pestered the administration to install a prayer room.

“He had very strict religious behaviour that made many people frustrated,” said the colleague, who asked that his name be withheld. “He had problems with the administration.”

 

 

According to his Toronto neighbours, Mr. Jaser lives with his wife in the back half of a a semi-detached brick house in northern Toronto.

‘‘We moved here last year and they already lived here. They’re renting next door,’’ said Mr. Chaudhary. In all that time, he never spoke to him.

Neighbours say he wore the flowing gown of Muslim attire and his wife wore a full-face covering burqa.

 

Last summer, five or six young men lived in the house with the couple for a few months, he said. The men, all of whom dressed in traditional Muslim garb, seemed obsessed with weightlifting and fitness. They worked out daily with barbells, and ate together in the backyard like family.

 

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/22/canadian-terrorist-plot-was-planned-by-chiheb-esseghaier-raed-jaser/

 

[ELEVEN]

I was born in the back seat of a 1952 Plymouth below that bridge in 1958.

Just because you lock someone up doesn't automatically mean you remember to feed them.

[gotbeer]

I was born in the back seat of a 1952 Plymouth below that bridge in 1958.

Just because you lock someone up doesn't automatically mean you remember to feed them.

 

 

In some countries, it's up to the families to bring food for someone in prison.  

[arch stanton]

In some countries, it's up to the families to bring food for someone in prison.  

In some countries, prisons are not for-profit corporate entities.

[katie]

Source code!

[fan_since79]

 

Family members of Raed Jaser leave Old City Hall court in Toronto on Tuesday.

 

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/23/terror-suspect-raed-jaser-in-toronto-court