http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3322708 TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police arrested 19 men last week in a case that, according to court documents obtained by a newspaper, has eerie parallels to the preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Michele Paradis on Friday confirmed the arrests but declined to offer details. "We arrested 19 people last Thursday," Paradis said, adding the operation had involved four police departments from across the Greater Toronto area. "They're all related and it's all part of, what we're alleging, has to do with a group taking advantage of a system -- the immigration system here in Canada." The Toronto Star newspaper said the men were arrested after a "pattern of suspicious behavior" which featured one man taking flight lessons that took him directly over an Ontario nuclear power plant. In court documents obtained by the newspaper, the student pilot was described as "unmotivated" and he raised suspicion because he has trained for nearly three years to obtain a commercial pilots license that normally takes only a year. "He often brings with him an unknown male as a passenger," the document read. The alleged incidents evoke chilling memories of the Sept. 11 attacks, where the suicide hijackers who flew commercial planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took lessons at U.S. flight schools. The newspaper said two other men were considered suspicious after police found them in April 2002 outside the same nuclear plant, which sits near the shores of Lake Ontario. "They requested that they be allowed to enter the perimeter in order to go for a walk on the beach," the document said. Police said the detained men, who are from Pakistan, tended to "reside in clusters of 4 or 5" and changed addresses as a group, according to the newspaper. Paradis said the investigation, called Project Thread, began last February. She referred questions to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which did not immediately return calls seeking more information.
I hope they squelch any thing like this state side too. I recall a similar place near H-Town... too scary for me. Hope nothing like that possible scenario ever pans out. It would mean a great deal more than anything we've seen before. God, help us.
I'm sure they see Canada as one of our lackeys... afterall, everything else is our fault isnt it? And for a change, I agree with DaDA.. send a message to those terrorists....no mercy!
Killing them in public would be equivalent to doing them a favor by granting them martyrdom. Why grant them what they want? Put them in a closet, lock the door, and throw away the key.
Guys, I don't think "they" care who "they" hate. "They" just need someone to be the enemy so that "they" can rally the troops. I really don't buy that those terrorists in charge really hate the U.S. for any real reasons - we're just a 500 pound gorilla and it's easy to motovate people to hate us because they can show how luxurious we live and then explain to the ignorant masses that we live this way because we are exploiting them - without explaing <i>how</i> we are exploiting them! Bin Laden says he hates the U.S. because we have troops on "sacred" land but he's got to know that we are there at the request of the Saudi government (I know... he hates them too) and that we're there because of Saddam Hussein. If bin Laden really wanted us out of Saudi Arabia, he should have taken out Hussien! It doesn't matter what we do or don't do. They (bin Laden and his ilk) will always hate us. Always have, always will.
