17 terrorist suspects arrested in Canada

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Seventeen suspected terrorists were arrested in Canada today. They allegedly planned to use 3 tons of explosive material to blow up a building. How many times was Canada mentioned during the "border security" debate?

We need to secure our borders NOW!

I wonder if the NSA listened in on any of their phone calls.

lol

[Sailor]

"I wonder if the NSA listened in on any of their phone calls."

Honestly? There are quite a few Canadian and British service people stationed at "The Fort" (FT Meade) and NSA. All are electronic intel weenies like I was, and while they DO NOT have access to the total NSA take they are on routing for anything NSA vacuums in that falls in their areas of concern.

Their laws (Canada and Britain) are a tad bit different from ours regarding government monitoring of (for them) domestic communications though I'm not up to date on them (never had to be.)

How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS probe

Jun. 3, 2006. 05:52 PM
MICHELLE SHEPHARD
STAFF REPORTER

Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men — with more to come — marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.

The chain of events began two years ago, sparked by local teenagers roving through Internet sites, reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims here and abroad.

Their words were sometimes encrypted, the Internet sites where they communicated allegedly restricted by passwords, but Canadian spies back in 2004 were reading them. And as the youths' words turned into actions, they began watching them.

www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1149285034044&call_pageid=976163513378&col=969048863474

It ain't just phone calls that get monitored.

3 tons of ammonium nitrate? Tim McVey only used 1 ton at OK City. Gawd.

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It ain't just phone calls that get monitored.

Yeah, I meant it as more of a rhetorical question.

You'd think that take-downs like this would shut the Left's anti-surveillance whines down.

WE NEED to be able to listen in on calls made by known terrorists.

If this doesn't give them the big clue, nothing will.

[MrDoublel]

Whatta you wanna bet some idiot starts to talk about their (Canadians) constitutional 1st ammendment rights. That should fun to react to...Have any of you ever read the Canadian constitution? And do they have one?

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laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/index.html

Those terrorists were targeting Canadian sites - and smuggling weapons in from the US side btw. Mexico has a similar problem - Mexican criminals and gangbangers smuggle in their weapons from the US. Both countries have very strict gun control undermined by open borders.

[MrDoublel]

There's a perfect diplomatic reason to build a barrier...to help our neighbors enforce their laws and curb violent crime there! I don't think they'll buy it...

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I just read an AP article on this that said the terrorists were planning this attack to protest the treatment of Muslims worldwide.

You have GOT to be shitting me!

Protest the treatment of Muslims??? By whom???

This kind of reminds me of the animal rights wackos. They are so concerned about the treatment of animals, yet they ignore how animals TREAT EACH OTHER. It's a damn smorgasbord out there from the minute they're born until the minute they die. They're incredibly cruel to each other in their natural state.

Muslims are the same damn way! They treat each other WAY THE HELL more harshly than anyone else does. You want to protest the treatment of Muslims??? Look in the damn mirror dip shits!

Look at ANY Muslim country (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and the rest).

What about Darfur for crying out loud!!!!

WTF???

[MrDoublel]

It's because they believe the western media and governments are lying to them (which in not entirely untrue) but, on the other hand they think that Al Jazeera and the other Arab media outlets are telling the unadulterated truth. The media that has a code of ethics (I know, they don't really follow it) is not to be trusted and the media that concocts more fiction than hollywood is trusted wholeheartedly!

[LorSpi]

sfcdoublel said:

There's a perfect diplomatic reason to build a barrier...to help our neighbors enforce their laws and curb violent crime there! I don't think they'll buy it...

I think that it's an excellent selling point.

If they think they are putting the screws to the US (forcing it to increase border security to reduce the flow of weapons instead of illegals) then there is a much better chance of getting cooperation.

Diplomacy - ain't it grand ;D