Weekend news on Terrorism... Will the media keep this alive?
Kind on a hot story. One of those things to make you realize that your corner isn't safe. Whether you agree on what the US (and others did) to eliminate this threat, the threat is here and must be dealt with
It certainbly isn't going to go away on its own...
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by al-Qaida, who obtained three times the amount of an explosive ingredient used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said Saturday.
The FBI said the Canadian suspects may have had "limited contact" with two men recently arrested on terrorism charges in Georgia. About 400 regional police and federal agents participated in the arrests Friday and early Saturday.
"These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement. "As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 12 adult suspects, ages 43 to 19, and five suspects younger than 18 on terrorism charges including plotting attacks with explosives on Canadian targets. The suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together, police said.
The group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate - three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injured more than 800, said assistant Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioner Mike McDonell.
The fertilizer can be mixed with fuel oil or other ingredients to make a bomb.
"This group posed a real and serious threat," McDonell said. "It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks."
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Officials at the news conference displayed purported bomb-making materials including a red cell phone wired to what appeared to be an explosives detonator inside a black toolbox. Also shown were a computer hard drive, camouflage uniforms, flashlights and walkie-talkies. A flimsy white door riddled with bullet holes was on display but no details about it were available.
According to a report Saturday in The Toronto Star citing unidentified police sources, the suspects attended a terrorist training camp north of Toronto and had plotted to attack the Canadian spy agency's downtown Toronto office, among other targets in Ontario province. Authorities refused to confirm those reports.
The suspects lived in either Toronto, Canada's financial capital and largest city, or the nearby cities of Mississauga or Kingston.
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Until I read their names, I thought they might have been french
When I think of Canadian terrorists, that is the first thing I think of
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why don't you just post a list of your favourite rss feeds and blogs and then anyone interested in these 'news items' can get them straight from the source?
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why don't you just post a list of your favourite rss feeds and blogs and then anyone interested in these 'news items' can get them straight from the source?
If you don't like it, do what I do with certain spelling-error-loaded posts, and ignore any threads started by the individual.
i've defended both posters from time to time... that doesn't mean i can't ask them questions (even if they refuse to answer...) or make suggestions
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Kind on a hot story. One of those things to make you realize that your corner isn't safe. Whether you agree on what the US (and others did) to eliminate this threat, the threat is here and must be dealt with
It certainbly isn't going to go away on its own...
It's unfortunate that some countries go to such great steps to promote, influence and tempt/provoke terrorism.
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i've defended both posters from time to time... that doesn't mean i can't ask them questions (even if they refuse to answer...) or make suggestions
Never said you couldn't ask questions, just seems lately whenever Radimus starts a thread, you are there criticizing his "agenda" or suggesting he not post it altogether.
If you like reading what he posts, great. If not, don't. Its a policy that's worked for me lately, that's all I'm saying, not trying to be disagreeable.
why don't you just post a list of your favourite rss feeds and blogs and then anyone interested in these 'news items' can get them straight from the source?
I refuse to read blogs... (except for Digg of course)
and I played with rss, both PC and PPC, and didn't think much of it.
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I would like to say that everyone has the right to post, and everyone has the right to either ignore those posts or answer those posts.
I read about this Canadian take down and all those people started complaining, "just because we're middle eastern/muslim they're going after us." I'm sure the amount of explosive material had a bit to do with it as well.
It's unfortunate that some countries go to such great steps to promote, influence and tempt/provoke terrorism.
Reading between the lines, it sadly sounds as if Howard2k belives that the United States is getting what it deserves when it comes to terrorist attacks.
I am sure there is a rush of people to prepare indictments and councilling for the people that commit terrorism.
Never said you couldn't ask questions, just seems lately whenever Radimus starts a thread, you are there criticizing his "agenda" or suggesting he not post it altogether.
If you like reading what he posts, great. If not, don't. Its a policy that's worked for me lately, that's all I'm saying, not trying to be disagreeable.
Actually I've never said he does have an agenda... although it is looking like he does... and the reason why this conversation is following Radimus into new threads is that rather than answering questions in his old threads he likes to leave them unanswered and start a new one. So it's easy just to let the questions follow him.
But I get your point. It's like TV. If all the stations are producing drivel it's sometimes better just to turn it off.
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Reading between the lines, it sadly sounds as if Howard2k belives that the United States is getting what it deserves when it comes to terrorist attacks.
more of a "control people by playing on their fears" as opposed to "getting what they deserve".
besides the afghanis/iraqis are getting worse treatment by the troops there. so no need to whinge about some people in america dying and then saying 'why, oh why". its because they dont like what the american army is doing to their homeland, regardless of weather or not they overthrew a dictator (iraq).
better to be mistreated by your own instead of someone else. now america can basically rape iraq's economy. at least saddam would have kept that together, or at least tried to, with all the sanctions and what not.
and for records sake, i'd like this whole thing to end tonight with 0 deaths, but that probably wont happen. :(
Good thing I was planning my vacation there for next summer .... how sad is this - I was born 80 Miles from TO and I've never been there. Now I've got to travel over 1500 Miles to get there
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.... how sad is this - I was born 80 Miles from TO and I've never been there. Now I've got to travel over 1500 Miles to get there 
