[ May 12, 2024 ]
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
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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.
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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18 Comments
11 years ago
“U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week’s Boston Marathon bombings”
How do they know that this soon?.
11 years ago
Good Point
11 years ago
Not citizens? Then why are they here/there??
When will we ever learn?
11 years ago
A wee problem: Since it is not uncommon for these terrorists to be from highly educated, priviledge backgrounds. And since it is not uncommon for people who know them to say how nice they are, how polite they are, how sweet they are, how they would never guess they could do something like this. Then how in the world is anyone supposed to be able to figure out who to trust in the Muslim community? Many of these terrorists are well integrated into our society – attending college, practicing professionals, etc. They seem just like us. Except they live a double life. Are we supposed to forever live in the hope that the FBI will get them every time? (Which, obviously, they don’t. Or at least not in time.) Are we supposed to wonder about the motives of any Muslim we may meet? How is all this “new normal” supposed to work?
11 years ago
Here is some advice to all: Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be converts…
11 years ago
@ Sarah – the answer to that is don’t befriend any muslime, no matter how nice he/she may appear – seems the whole damn lot of them cannot be trusted!
11 years ago
Politically Correct. They rely on people in the liberal media and politics to be PC, and not “Islamaphobic” in order to keep us quiet until they accomplish their goals. They have their “useful idiots”.
11 years ago
These boys are looking for empowerment. What makes them so UN-empowered that Islamic jihad is the bait they take? Islam is a framework for all this, but would be nice to get to the sociological base.
11 years ago
student visas?
11 years ago
“U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week’s Boston Marathon bombings.”
Yeah, right. Last Friday evening I was on the train platform in New Haven, CT, and saw a policeman with a bomb sniffing dog on the next platform. This happened because the U.S. authorities thought there could be trouble over 100 miles away from Boston. And in the morning on Friday, I saw a bomb sniffing dog enter the subway at Grand Central Station in New York, about 350-400 miles from Boston because they figured an attack might happen there in conjunction with the Boston bombings. But U.S. officials would never think a coordinated attack could happen roughly 400 miles west of Boston in Niagara Falls? “Baloney,” as the late Mayor Koch used to say.
11 years ago
Sad as it is, all future student visa’s should be delayed or stopped. If this government doesn’t do their job to monitor ..(which they obviously don’t)….very sad world we live in.
11 years ago
Basic, in brief, one must define a Muslim, as one does an airplane, a boat, a car, a snake, a gerbil, and on down the line. Then, expect each to perform according to their respective identification.
Allah’s book defines the Muslim. In brief.
11 years ago
Pamella stated, “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!”
Surely, Pamella, you are not alluding to the possibility, with respect to Islam, our elected officials–for at least over a decade–have flat lied to us. Aimed to deceive the deceivable. And to our harm, loss, and shame, all too often, succeeded thereat.
11 years ago
The fact this meatball has a resume including advanced studies in biotechnology points suspiciously to the capability to engineer a biological weapon.
11 years ago
Its better to lose a couple of densely populated trains than offend these muslims? Is that the message from Canada? Time for our unwelcome except to the politically correct guests to high step to the door and go home.
11 years ago
Seth McFarlane is rumored to have predicted the Boston Marathon bombing in one episode of his TV series Family Guy. In that same episode the protagonists blow up a bridge. We can speculate, Family Guy also predicted the train bombs for the bridge over the Niagra falls. So here is a link between the two terror acts.
Besides that both terror acts are caused by the same religion, originating from the same alleged prophet, and they are part of the same war of that community on the Western world.
11 years ago
I wonder why it says “disrupt a major North American transportation route” since railroads play no major role in long distance passenger transportation any more in North America, a common European rumor says.
11 years ago
They call it a homegrown terror plot although the plotters are not Canadian citizens. I disagree. By that logic, you could call a killing during the cold war of a KGB agent on a CIA agent while the KGB agent has an appartment rented in the USA, a homegrown terror act.
