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Israel at War Watch: Who’s Looking for Al-Manar TV?
LGF: Who’s Looking for Al-Manar TV?
Courtesy of Google Trends, here are the countries whose citizens are searching the web for links to the Hizballah hate channel Al-Manar. (Hat tip: Egfrow.)
Hummmmmm, alot of France and Canadian hits, eh?
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Michael Ramirez on France, Lebanon and the United Nations
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Canada Watch: Terrorists’ Right To Fly The Friendly Skies in Canada
Toronto Sun: No-fly list to ignore terror ties
Belonging to group won’t be enough to be deemed air threat
Being a member of a terrorist organization won’t necessarily land someone on Canada’s no-fly list, The Canadian Press has learned.
Proposed criteria would limit inclusion on the roster to those who pose “an immediate threat to aviation security,” Transport Canada internal briefing notes say.
Draft regulations, disclosed by a source familiar with details of the plan, confirm the no-fly list will be tightly focused and reviewed every 30 days to keep it up to date.
“You cannot be put on the list on the sole basis that you’re a member of a ‘terrorist group,'” the source said. “In addition, you have to be a demonstrable threat to aviation safety.”
The source said that under the proposed regulations, people involved in a terrorist group — either now or in the past — could be added to the list only if there were reason to suspect they may “compromise civil aviation, the security of any aircraft or aerodrome, or the safety of the public, passengers or crew.”
Does that mean you have to carry a box-cutter and threaten a flight attendant to be a “demonstrable threat to aviation safety?”
Now, we wouldn’t want to inconvenience any terrorists who want to KILL US, would we?
Remind me to not fly to Canada anytime soon and how about an embargo on flights originating in Canada to the United States?
Blogosphere:
Captain Ed has Canada To Terrorists: Fly The Friendly Skies
Even if one discounted the 9/11 attacks as a warning to Western aviation in general, Canada shows a remarkable lack of concern for their citizens. Terrorists have hijacked airplanes for at least four decades now. Instead of screening people to deny access to acknowledged terrorists, Canada will need to institute stricter gate security and inconvenience everyone — and still won’t be able to guarantee that the known terrorists won’t do something. A member of al-Qaeda could simply pull open a cabin door at 37,000 feet and have a good chance of killing everyone on board.
Travelers have been warned. (via Hot Air)
Hot Air has Friendly skies: Canada greenlights terrorists for air travel
Which I guess means Mohammed Atta is okay to fly Air Canada so long as they don’t find out about the pilot lessons.
Ace has Canada Decides Terrorists Have Right To Fly
Isn’t the membership in a terrorist organization ipso facto proof of a threat to aviation?
Did they miss that whole people-jumping-out-of-buildings and towers-falling-to-the-ground kerfuffle a few years back?
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Wide Awakes Radio Watch: July 4 Launch
Today is Wide Awakes Radios launch.
Check it out here.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
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Canada Watch: Canadian Veterans Outraged Over Canada’s National War Memorial Defacement
Canada’s National War Memorial, Confederation Square, Ottawa
MSN News: Veterans outraged by war memorial defacement
Veterans demand the government heed their calls for security around Ottawa’s National War Memorial after hooligans urinated on the site during Canada Day celebrations.“It is abhorrent. It is vile. It is an insult to anyone who has ever served,” Bob Butt of the Royal Canadian Legion said Monday.
On Saturday night, retired Maj. Michael Pilon captured pictures of several men defacing the Ottawa monument after the holiday fireworks.
Dr. Pilon, who served with the Royal Canadian Dental Corps, said most of the crowd reacted with cheers and laughter.
However, the photos were published in local Ottawa newspapers, and people interviewed by CTV News clearly did not approve.
The legion plans to use the photos to pressure the government for increased security at the monument.
And where were the police during a national holiday, Canada Day?
‘It’s absolutely disgusting,’ said the Royal Canadian Legion’s Bob Butt of the young men who urinated on the National War Memorial on Saturday. ‘It’s the same as if you urinated on someone’s grave.’Police have contacted Ottawa dentist, Dr. Michael Pilon who Flap knows from the Internet Dental Forum and have confirmed to him that charges of mischief will be laid, Ottawa Police Detective Mike Walker said.
Dentist Mike Pilon whose photgraphs have created a national Canadian uproar.In the meantime, Canadian Veterans are clearly upset with the government over lack of security. Newly elected Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated:
“As you know often, people who get carried away do thoughtless things,” Harper said. “Obviously, it’s a terrible thing to do.”
“Certainly my impression is it doesn’t represent in any way the views of any segment of Canadian society,” he said. “I think we all strongly honour our vets.”
But, H. Clifford Chadderton, chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada (NCVA), told CTV.ca that veterans’ groups have been asking for more security since 1995 but especially since the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in May 2000.
Flap asks again where were the police? Or do Canada’s finest look the other way during drunken celebratory national holidays?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will certainly fix the security for next year’s Canada Day because this is a national disgrace. But, one asks where was the former Liberal Party Prime Minister Paul Martin when the veterans made their initial requests for more security?
The Answer:
He was ripping off the Canadian people in the Adscam Scandal and bashing the United States.
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Canada Terror Watch: Hateful Chatter Behind the Veil
The Globe and Mail: Hateful chatter behind the veil
Key suspects’ wives held radical views, Web postings reveal
MISSISSAUGA — When it came time to write up the premarital agreement between Zakaria Amara and Nada Farooq, Ms. Farooq briefly considered adding a clause that would allow her to ask for a divorce.
She said that Mr. Amara (now accused of being a leader of the alleged terror plot that led to the arrests of 17 Muslim men early this month) had to aspire to take part in jihad.
“[And] if he ever refuses a clear opportunity to leave for jihad, then i want the choice of divorce,” she wrote in one of more than 6,000 Internet postings uncovered by The Globe and Mail.
Wives of four of the central figures arrested last month were among the most active on the website, sharing, among other things, their passion for holy war, disgust at virtually every aspect of non-Muslim society and a hatred of Canada. The posts were made on personal blogs belonging to both Mr. Amara and Ms. Farooq, as well as a semi-private forum founded by Ms. Farooq where dozens of teens in the Meadowvale Secondary School area chatted. The vast majority of the posts were made over a period of about 20 months, mostly in 2004, and the majority of those were made by the group’s female members.
This story is an interesting glimpse into the lives of young jihadists allowed in the multicultural world of Canada to derive their own radical Islamic culture and value systems.
Read the rest of the piece here.
A group of women identified as relatives of some of the men arrested last night on terrorism charges wait to be let in to the Brampton courthouse Saturday, June 3, 2006.
Captain Ed has Jihad — A Family Affair
The portrait painted by the G&M are of an angry subculture that praises oppression and opposes the freedoms that they exploit to pursue their recruitment to jihad. It also paints them as rather naive and foolish; they obviously never considered the trail they left behind them of missives and screeds that support the image of militant jihadis. They may not mind that image, but their husbands will find it very inconvenient when they come to trial.
So, are these wannabe jihadists or jihadists in training? Whichever, the Canadian authorities will soon deal harshly for a Canadian terrorist plot of Jihad.
More on the series on the Globe and Mail later and the Canadian culture of Jihad.
Stay tuned……
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Canada Slams Representative John Hostettler
Canada Terrorism Watch: Operation Badr – The Crown Synopsis
Canada Terrorism Watch: Second Arrest in the United Kingdom Tied to Canada Terrorist Round-Up
Canada Terrorist Watch: Muslim Leader Accuses Media of ‘Racism’
Canada Terrorist Watch: United States Links to Canada Terrorist Plot Investigated
Canada Terrorism Watch: Canadian Terror Probe Expands to 7 nations
Canada Terrorism Watch: Toronto Mosque Vandalized
Canada Terrorism Watch: Terrorists from “Broad Strata†of Society
Canada Terrorism Watch: Suspects Complain About Conditions and Demand Korans
Canada Terrorism Watch: 17 Canadians in Custody for Terrorist Plot to Use Explosives
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Canada Slams Representative John Hostettler
Bill Graham, head of Canada’s main opposition Liberal party, speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 3, 2006. Canada’s government and main opposition party united on Friday to condemn ‘completely uninformed and ignorant remarks’ by a U.S. member of Congress who said Canada was a breeding ground for terrorists.
Reuters: Canada slams “ignorant” US comments on security
Canada’s government and main opposition party united on Friday to condemn “completely uninformed and ignorant remarks” by a U.S. member of Congress who said Canada was a breeding ground for terrorists.
Last week police in and around Toronto arrested 17 Muslim men, five of whom are under the age of 18. Several of them are charged with plotting bombings in major Canadian cities and training militants.
John Hostettler, chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on immigration and border security, said on Thursday that Canada “hosts an abundance of terrorists and as many as 50 terrorist organizations.”
Bill Graham, head of Canada’s main opposition Liberal party, asked in Parliament what the government was doing to “stand up to these unjustified and abusive attacks on Canada, making sure that the American media and the politicians understand and speak the truth?”
Jason Kenney, parliamentary secretary to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, described Hostettler as misinformed and called on him to withdraw the comments.
“I join with the leader of the opposition in repudiating those completely uninformed and ignorant remarks that we heard yesterday,” he replied.
But, the Canadians are used to BASHING the United States on the Global War on Terror and trade issues. Paul Martin, the former Prime Minister and Liberal Party
CrookHead spent the past few years in heavily crticizing the USA in the press.So, when a United States Member of Congress does the same, then…… all hell breaks loose north of the border.
Hostettler also lashed out at “South Toronto,” which he said was “the type of enclave that allows for this radical type of discussion to go on.”
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, but there is no area known as “South Toronto.” Crimes rates in the southern part of the city — which lies on the north shore of Lake Ontario — are relatively low.
And what is the REAL issue here?
Hostettler’s comments alarmed Canadian politicians, who are trying to persuade U.S. lawmakers to delay a law that would require all Canadian citizens crossing into the United States to carry a passport or a sophisticated identity card.
Canadian and U.S. communities along the border fear the rules — due to come into effect on January 1, 2008 — could damage a lucrative cross-border trade.
Hostettler said he opposed the idea of a delay, saying: “We do not want to have to worry about a neighbor that has a very different attitude than we do about terrorism.”
The real concern by Candians is that over 40 per cent of them do not possess passports and thus are truely undocumented residents when they cross over to the United States.
THIS MUST STOP.
The United States has an obligation, not to lucrative border trade, but, to protect American residents from unlawful entry of terrorists into the United States.
Canada is a conduit through which terrorists may easily pass.
There should be no delay in the 2008 implementation date.
Stay tuned….. Prime Minister Harper will meet with President Bush on July 6th.
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Operation Badr – The Crown Synopsis
Canada Terrorism Watch: Second Arrest in the United Kingdom Tied to Canada Terrorist Round-Up
Canada Terrorist Watch: Muslim Leader Accuses Media of ‘Racism’
Canada Terrorist Watch: United States Links to Canada Terrorist Plot Investigated
Canada Terrorism Watch: Canadian Terror Probe Expands to 7 nations
Canada Terrorism Watch: Toronto Mosque Vandalized
Canada Terrorism Watch: Terrorists from “Broad Strata†of Society
Canada Terrorism Watch: Suspects Complain About Conditions and Demand Korans
Canada Terrorism Watch: 17 Canadians in Custody for Terrorist Plot to Use Explosives
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Representative John Hostettler – South Toronto a Breeding Ground for Islamic Terrorists
Representative John Hostettler
The Globe and Mail: U.S. politician blasts Toronto as a hotbed of Islamic extremism
A U.S. congressman warned yesterday that Canada, and in particular the enclave of “South Toronto,” was a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists and that the United States will be under threat as long as passports are not required of all Canadians crossing the border.
“South Toronto, like those parts of London that are host to the radical imams who influenced the 9/11 terrorists and the shoe bomber, has people who adhere to a militant understanding of Islam,” said John Hostettler, chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on immigration and border security, noting that Toronto has a very large South Asian community.
Later, when asked by reporters to describe “South Toronto” in greater detail, Mr. Hostettler said it was “a location which I understand is the type of enclave that allows for this radical type of discussion to go on.”
The Indiana Republican painted a picture of Canada as a hotbed of Islamic extremists intent on inflicting their terrorist damage on their southern neighbours while Canadians sat in blissful ignorance of the danger in their midst.
“It is fair to say that the Canadian border is virtually unguarded,” Mr. Hostettler said. “Canadians, as well as those [who are] imposters pretending to be Canadians or returning American tourists, roll through our border ports of entry with little or no document inspections.”
He said that the 17 terrorist suspects arrested in Toronto demonstrated “an unsuccessful adoption of traditional Canadian values.”
“If we needed a clear case for why there needs to be a dramatic increase in security along the northern border . . . the example of this past week’s terrorist arrests in Toronto is very dramatic,” he said.
The Canadian border needs to be tightened. Requiring strict passport controls may harm tourism along the American-Canadian broder in the short run but assures better long term security for both countries.
The House-Senate Conference Committee should strip or modify the proposed delay in implementation of increased passport controls as contained in the Senate immigration bill. The northern border needs to be as tight as the southern one.
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Operation Badr – The Crown Synopsis
Canada Terrorism Watch: Second Arrest in the United Kingdom Tied to Canada Terrorist Round-Up
Canada Terrorist Watch: Muslim Leader Accuses Media of ‘Racism’
Canada Terrorist Watch: United States Links to Canada Terrorist Plot Investigated
Canada Terrorism Watch: Canadian Terror Probe Expands to 7 nations
Canada Terrorism Watch: Toronto Mosque Vandalized
Canada Terrorism Watch: Terrorists from “Broad Strata†of Society
Canada Terrorism Watch: Suspects Complain About Conditions and Demand Korans
Canada Terrorism Watch: 17 Canadians in Custody for Terrorist Plot to Use Explosives
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Operation Badr – The Crown Synopsis
The Globe and Mail: How the police watched the plan unfold
Fahim Ahmad group’s alleged ’emir’
It’s alleged that they called their project Operation Badr. And before its unravelling gripped the world’s attention on the weekend, it made quieter noises that police say they picked up on: a seemingly inconsequential gun seizure at the Canada-U.S. border; a gunshot near Cochrane in Northern Ontario; bullets shattering statues of Hindu gods during a target practice in a remote area in the Township of Ramara, Ont.; and the printing of business cards with a decidedly non-threatening e-mail address, Studentfarmers@hotmail.com.
According to a copy of a Crown synopsis viewed yesterday by The Globe and Mail, police have months worth of surveillance, communication intercepts and physical evidence that were amassed before a monitored buy of $4,000 worth of ammonium nitrate fertilizer on Friday. This sting is said to be the final chapter of months of dogged police work, leading to the arrest of 17 suspects.
This is an interesting expose into the working of this terrorist group.
Note:
But according to the Crown dossier seen by The Globe, police were doing a lot: They were watching Mr. Ahmad’s communications, and came to believe he was talking to overseas figures with ties to international terrorism; they were trying to tie him to two Georgia-based terrorism suspects who had visited Toronto that spring; and they were keeping a close eye on the Toronto-area circles he moved in.
Seems to be the rationale behind the NSA monitoring communications, eh?
Another interesting piece in the Globe and Mail today is RCMP foiled dozen plots in past two years.
The RCMP has quietly broken up at least a dozen terrorist groups in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.
“We have completed 12 disruptions of national-level terrorist groups across the country,” the Mounties say in briefing notes prepared for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
Disruptive tactics — sometimes as simple as letting targets know they are under close surveillance — are used to prevent a terrorist attack when the police do not have enough evidence to lay criminal charges, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service say.
Unlike the high-profile arrests and court proceedings resulting from the weekend roundup of terrorist suspects in Southern Ontario, the public rarely learns about these operations, federal security officials say.
The briefing notes, released to The Globe under the Access to Information Act, are part of the transition book prepared by the RCMP for Mr. Day when the Conservatives formed a new government in February.
Stay tuned……..
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Second Arrest in the United Kingdom Tied to Canada Terrorist Round-Up
The broken front door of a house in Bradford, England shows where police used force to enter the building and arrest a man who they believe is connected to the alleged terror plot in Toronto.
Reuters: Second UK arrest linked to Canada swoop: BBC
Police arrested a second person under Britain’s anti-terrorism laws on Wednesday in an operation the BBC said was linked to last week’s security swoop in Canada.
The 16-year-old, who was not identified, was held in Yorkshire, northern England, after a man aged 21 was detained at Manchester Airport late on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
“This is a continuation of last night’s operation at Manchester Airport,” the spokesman said.
The BBC, quoting unnamed sources, said the 21-year-old man, believed to be of Pakistani origin, was being questioned in connection with the arrest last week of 17 Muslim men in Canada accused of being al Qaeda sympathizers.
Police said the public broadcaster’s report was “speculation” and would not comment further.
Several of those arrested in Canada have been charged with plotting bombings in Canadian cities and training militants.
British officers were searching five properties in the northern English towns of Bradford and Dewsbury as part of the investigation.
The arrests were made less than a week after police in London shot and wounded a man during a raid on a house which they believed was being used to make a chemical bomb.
Police said no armed officers were involved in Tuesday’s arrest and the operation was not related to the London inquiry, which was still in progress.
Police stand guard outside a residence after a police raid in Bradford, UK. One man was arrested and police allege he is connected to the alleged terror plot in Toronto.
Remember – It is a Global War on Terror………
Might there be some international coordination between these terrorist cells?
You betcha
A case in point for the NSA Surveillance interception of international communications.
Stay tuned……
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Canada Terrorism Watch: Terrorists from “Broad Strata†of Society
Canada Terrorism Watch: Suspects Complain About Conditions and Demand Korans
Canada Terrorism Watch: 17 Canadians in Custody for Terrorist Plot to Use Explosives
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Canada Terror Watch: Canada Plot Suspect Steven Chand Planned to Behead Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada
Defence lawyers Donald McLeod (L) and Gary Batasar address the media after a bail hearing at court in Brampton, Ontario on June 6, 2006. McLeod is representing Jahmaal James while Batasar is representing Steven Vikash Chand.
Reuters: Canada plot suspect accused of plan to behead PM
One of 17 men accused of plotting bombings in major Canadian cities and of training militants also faces an allegation that he sought to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Steven Chand, 25, was among 15 members of the alleged terrorist ring who appeared in a heavily guarded courtroom north of Toronto to set dates for bail hearings.
The Muslim men, five of them under the age of 18, were arrested on Friday in Canada’s largest counterterrorism operation, and police said more arrests are possible.
Chand’s lawyer, Gary Batasar, said his client faced several serious charges and was concerned that intense media interest in the details of the case in Canada and the United States could jeopardize Chand’s chances of a fair trial.
Allegations include plans for the “storming and bombing of various buildings,” Batasar told reporters.
“There’s an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada,” Batasar said.
“It’s a very serious allegation — he’s said nothing about that. My clients retains the right to silence.”
Members of the group are alleged to have considered plans to take hostages and to attack Canada’s parliament in Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. building in Toronto and power grids, according to a synopsis of charges Batasar said he saw.
Two Muslim women believed to be family members of the 17 suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers accused of planning bomb attacks, arrive carrying a copy of the Koran for a bail hearing in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, June 6, 2006.
Sounds like a poorly written 24 script.This is serious business and a wake-up call to Canadians and Americans that we can have NO complacency in the Global War on Terror.
Do you think any of the bleating and moaning about the NSA Surveillance Program will be repeated soon?
Nope……
Mohammhed Abdelhaleen (L), father of Shareef Abdelhaleen, one of the 17 suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers accused of planning bomb attacks, arrives with two burkha clad women, for a bail hearing in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, June 6, 2006.
MSM:
CNN: Lawyer: Government says terror plans included beheading
Washington Post: Charges Against Canadian Terror Suspects Read
New York Times: Details of Canadian Plot Emerge
ASSociated Press: Canada Terror Suspect Charges Made Public
Blogosphere:
Wizbang: Canadian Terror Suspect Accused of Plan to Behead Canadian PM
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