Tel-Chai Nation

The National Post (via Hot Air) reports that the terrorists arrested in Toronto planned two different attacks. There have been more arrests made too.

TORONTO - The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place, the National Post has learned.

The alleged conspirators were concentrating their efforts on their assigned missions and were in an advanced state of planning when authorities arrested them last weekend.

The national security component of the huge investigation was code-named Operation Claymore by Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, which was on specific alert as their office at the base of the CN Tower was among the list of prime targets by the alleged conspirators.

The Toronto Stock Exchange was another of the plotters' prime targets for a massive bomb attack, according to law-enforcement sources.

Both attacks would have devastated Toronto and, if carried out during business hours, would have resulted in significant casualties.

Sources also told the National Post that the commandos of Joint Task Force-2 (JTF-2), Canada's elite special forces unit, were put on standby a short flight away from where suspected terrorists were conducting ''training camps'' at an isolated site north of Toronto.

A ''troop'' of about 25 of the unit's highly trained assaulters, part of JTF-2's counter-terrorism unit, were at a nearby military base with their helicopters ready to swoop down should police decide they were needed, said a military source.

''They were within a few minutes flying time of this training camp,'' said the source, who is familiar with JTF-2's operations. ''Basically they were on standby in case things got out of hand and the police couldn't handle it.''

Police arrested 12 adults and five youths Friday under the federal Anti-terrorism Act for allegedly plotting to bomb targets in southern Ontario. Fifteen of them are to appear in a Brampton, Ont., court today for a bail hearing on a variety of offences.

Security is expected to be intense. For their first appearance on Saturday, more than 30 tactical officers ringed the courthouse, a helicopter hovered overheard, and rooftop snipers and bomb-sniffing dogs watched those being frisked by court officers and Peel Regional Police officers.

Of the 17 people charged, five of them are considered juveniles by the court and little information on the youths is publicly available regarding their charges.

Of the adults, however, court documents suggest that a sub group of six was allegedly involved in the bomb plot. Nine of them are charged with training to carry out a terrorist activity.

A smaller group of four are charged with training or recruiting others into a terrorist plot and three are charged with obtaining firearms.

All of them are charged with participating or contributing to a terrorist group.

The two men, identified by the National Post as the alleged terrorist leaders Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara face the most charges. Ahmad is charged with all six of the terrorism charges.

I think this is more than reason enough to try any and all such underaged felons as adults.

The National Post also reports that one of the thugs arrested wanted to behead Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper:

BRAMPTON, Ont — A 25-year-old restaurant worker is accused of planning to storm Parliament Hill, behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, take hostages and behead them unless the group’s demands were met, accoridng to his lawyer.

Gary Batasar, the lawyer for Steven Chand (also known by his Muslim name Abdul Shakur), emerged from court Tuesday saying Crown prosecutors had provided him with an eight-page "summary" of the charges against his client and 16 other men arrested last week.

"My client is being accused of plotting to storm the Parliament buildings, take hostages (and) make demands to remove Canadian troops from Afghanistan and to free Muslim prisoners," Batasar said outside the Brampton, Ont. courthouse.

"He is supposed to have planned to behead hostages if his demands weren’t met ... and to want to behead the prime minister. The last thing was that they were going to storm the CBC building downtown (in Toronto) to take over communications to broadcast their message."

Chand is one of 17 men, all Muslims, who were arrested Friday and charged with planning a terrorist attack. Police said the men were planning to build a simple but effective bomb using fertilizer and diesel fuel.

And the monster's attorney is apologizing for that demon? Utter disgust.

Labels: Canada, islam, terrorism