Terror cell busted in Toronto

[ECH1969]

Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto

TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.

The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants who had lived in Canada for as long as six years and were alleged members of a radical Islamic terror faction called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

The Salafist group, better known as the GSPC (short for Groupe Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat), is the leading Algerian terrorist group. It is a breakaway faction of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group and is aligned with bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq leader, Abu Mussab Zarqawi.

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ec323423-e423-4eef-9206-bb6652540ce4

[TheDebbieDee]

1. And I wonder how many people had to have this

information TORTURED out of them!

[Orsino]

2. How the heck did they do that...

...without a PATRIOT act?

[seriousstan]

8. According to the post above...they tortured it out of them.

The poster must have inside info they aren't sharing.

[enigma000]

3. Canadian troops out of Iraq now! n/t

[Centered]

4. I didn't think Canada sent troops to Iraq?

I knew there were forces integrated as part of a UN Soldier sharing thing but I thought Canada didn't join the "Coalition of the Willing"

[enigma000]

5. well no

they are not part of the coalition (other than help done under the command of the UN and NATO). But the thread was dying so I had to do something.

I guess it could be: Canada out of Algeria. But that wouldn't make sense either.

[Canadian_moderate]

6. Fighting terror having to invade sovereign countries

also works.

We may be more liberal, but we are still aware of terror threats to us and our friends down south.

I'm glad we're able to still help out without having to get caught in that diversion called Iraq.

[brentspeak]

7. Good job, Canada

[Marshall McClueless]

9. Hmm - the National Post.

I call bogus.

[daleo]

10. Yeah, I didn't see anything in the Globe and Mail

Or other more reputable sources yet.

[Marshall McClueless]

11. Oh, there's probably some story behind it,

but given a) the track record of our police on this subject, and b) the National Post's slavish devotion to neo-connery, I'm pretty suspicious.