Major Jihad Terror Plot to Attack New York-Toronto Railroad Thwarted in Canada: “It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage.”

I love when they say that it is unrelated to the Boston jihad bombings. It is the same thing. The same playbook. Same motive. Same goal. Same ideology.

Will we now have to suffer the draconian measures on the rails that the the lunkheads in Washington force us to endure on the airlines. These still have millions of Americans taking their shoes off because of Richard Reid in 2001. Operation fetal position ain't gonna win this war, no way no how.

Terror plot to attack New York-Toronto railroad thwarted in Canada RT April 22, 2013

A Via Rail train waits to leave the station at Union Station in Toronto. (Reuters / Mark Blinch)

Canadian law enforcement confirmed Monday afternoon that
authorities thwarted an alleged terror plot in Canada that targeted
Via Rail passenger train that runs between Toronto, Ontario and New
York City in the United States.

According to CTV, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
apprehended and charged two men earlier that day thought to be
responsible for hatching what is being called a homegrown terror
plot.

The suspects now in custody have been named as Chiheb Esseghaier
and Raed Jaser, residents of Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario,
respectively.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation adds that the suspects
were under investigation for over a year before brought into
custody, and assistance was provided by entities on both sides of
the border including the United States’ FBI and Department of
Homeland Security Department.

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The suspects, say investigators, were spotted routinely
monitoring train activity in the Toronto area.

Robert Fife, chief of CTV’s Ottawa news bureau, reports that
both suspects were arrested early Monday and “will face criminal
charges.”

“I am told that the two people who have been arrested, they
are linked somehow to al-Qaeda,” Fife says.

A federal policing operations official for the RCMP confirmed
during a Monday afternoon press conference that the plot was
supported by al-Qaeda, although authorities have yet to detail the
extent of that collaboration.

Details on the suspects are scant as preliminary reports come
in, but Fife describes them as being older, adding, “it does not
appear to be a case of radicalization of youth.”

Major terrorist attack on Canada averted Sun News, April 22, 2013

TORONTO – A potential bomb plot on a passenger train over the Niagara River has been averted, a police source told QMI Agency.

Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser of Montreal and Toronto were arrested, according to sources.

One
police source said there were several scenarios being looked at during
the year the suspects were tracked, including the train plot.

One
of the plots uncovered by the RCMP and other agencies was a planned
bombing of a passenger train on the bridge that connects Canada and the
United States at Niagara Falls, Ont., a police source told QMI Agency.

"The
plan was to take out a train with passengers on board and the crossing
trestle," said a source. "It was meant to be spectacular and there would
have been a lot of carnage."

The source was not clear of the planned date.

"It didn't happen," said the source. "It was stopped."

The source said he believes five people will be arrested and the investigation continues.

"There is an Ontario component and a Quebec component."

As for who was behind the terror plot, the source did not confirm al-Qaida, as some are reporting.

"I can tell you it's the big boys," he said. "I can tell you it's heavy stuff."

U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings.

The
arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that
Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria
in
January.

It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of the so-called Toronto-18, accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets.

UPDATE: Spencer has this:

A PhD student? But…but…we're always told that Muslims who
misunderstand Islam enough to think it exhorts to violence are all poor
and uneducated!

Chiheb Esseghaier is a "Graduate researcher at Université de Sherbrooke." His Linkedin page is here.

"RCMP says it foiled plot to attack Via Rail passenger train," from The Canadian Press, April 22:

TORONTO — RCMP say the two suspects arrested in an alleged
terror attack against a Via Rail passenger train had “direction and
guidance” from al-Qaida elements in Iran.

The suspects were not Canadian citizens.

The suspects — identified as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser — were arrested this morning in Montreal and Toronto.

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