Terroristische aanslagen voorkomen in Canada

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Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting two suspects in Montreal and Toronto, CBC News has learned.

Highly placed sources tell CBC News the alleged plotters have been under surveillance for more than a year in Quebec and southern Ontario.
Police have made a number of arrests in southern Ontario and Quebec following a joint operation between Canadian and U.S. authorities. (CBC)
The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The arrests Monday morning were co-ordinated and executed by a special joint task force of RCMP and CSIS anti-terrorism units, combined with provincial and municipal police forces in Ontario and Quebec.

The RCMP are expected to hold a press conference Monday afternoon to announce the arrests and provide details of the alleged plot, and give an overview of the extensive police and intelligence operation.

Law enforcement officials say the terror suspects arrested today have no connection to the two brothers accused of last week's Boston Marathon bombings.

They also say there is no tie to the former London, Ont., high school friends who joined al-Qaeda and died earlier this year while helping to stage a bloody attack on an Algerian gas refinery.

Alleged plot recalls Toronto 18 case

Sources say the alleged plot disrupted by Monday's arrests was potentially more dangerous than the bombings and hostage-takings planned by the so-called Toronto 18.

That plot was broken up in the summer of 2006, when police arrested 18 people in a massive anti-terrorism sweep in southern Ontario.

Eleven of the 18 were subsequently convicted of aiding the group in various plots, ranging from blowing up the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill and the Toronto Stock Exchange with trucks laden with explosives to beheading the prime minister and other politicians.

The group never got a chance to execute any of its plans before being arrested when one of its members took delivery of what they thought were three tonnes of explosive fertilizer to be used in truck bombs. Undercover agents had replaced the shipment with harmless chemicals.

Four are serving sentences of 18 years to life in prison, while the other seven received terms ranging from 30 months to just over seven years.

More recently, three Canadian citizens were arrested in August, 2010 two Ottawa men and a London, Ont. doctor and charged with knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity.

One of them, Hiva Alizadeh, was also charged with possession of more than 50 circuit boards allegedly to be used as remote detonators for bombs.

The cases involving those three have yet to go to court.

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Toegevoegd: maandag 22 apr 2013, 20:32

Politie en inlichtingendiensten in Canada zeggen dat ze een grote terreuraanslag hebben voorkomen. Dat meldt de Canadese publieke omroep CBC. In de provincies Ontario en Quebec is een onbekend aantal verdachten gearresteerd.

Volgens CBC zeggen 'hooggeplaatste bronnen' dat de verdachten al meer dan een jaar in de gaten werden gehouden. Het onderzoek werd gedaan in samenwerking met de Amerikaanse autoriteiten.

Het is niet bekend wat de vermeende terroristen voor doel op het oog hadden. De Canadese autoriteiten doen daar geen mededelingen over. Rond half tien Nederlandse tijd volgt een persconferentie van de politie.

Er is in ieder geval geen verband met de broers die bij de marathon van Boston een bomaanslag pleegden, zeggen de autoriteiten volgens CBC.

In 2006 ontdekten de Canadese inlichtingendiensten een omvangrijk plan van terroristen om bomaanslagen te plegen en mensen te gijzelen in Toronto. De hooggeplaatste bronnen van CBC zeggen dat het nu ontdekte terreurplan nog omvangrijker was.

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The RCMP have arrested two people in connection with a homegrown terror plot to derail a New York-to-Toronto passenger train on the Canadian side of the border, CTV News has learned.

The suspects, one in Montreal and one in Toronto, were arrested Monday morning and “will face criminal charges,” reported CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife.

The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation conducted by the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which “had been going on for a considerable amount of time,” Fife said.


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The RCMP have arrested two people who they say were plotting a terrorist attack in Canada, CTV News has learned.

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

Fife said it remains unclear how the two are connected to the international terror organization.

The two people arrested Monday are not linked with two men from London, Ont., who died in an alQaeda-linked siege on a gas plant in Algeria last January. They are also not linked to the suspects in last week’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

The public was “never at risk,” security sources told Fife, because RCMP and CSIS were closely monitoring the suspects.

The suspects are described as being older, so “it does not appear to be a case of radicalization of youth,” Fife said.

Fife said police had planned to make the arrests three weeks ago, but for unknown reasons they picked up the suspects on Monday.

The RCMP are expected to provide more information at a Toronto news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET.

The arrests come as MPs debate an anti-terrorism bill that has been in the works for months but has taken on greater significance in the wake of the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon last week.

Bill S-7, the Combating Terrorism Act, includes provisions that make it an offence to leave the country to participate in acts of terror. It also grants police the powers to pre-emptively arrest someone and hold them for three days without charge, and allows for imprisonment for up to 12 months for refusing to testify before a judge in an investigative hearing

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/can(...)248858#ixzz2RDnRr82K

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Eleven of the 18 were subsequently convicted of aiding the group in various plots, ranging from blowing up the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill and the Toronto Stock Exchange with trucks laden with explosives to beheading the prime minister and other politicians