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The Canada 17

Michele Malkin has the list of names.

First throught: How much you wanna bet at least one shows up on the list of Guantanamo detainees?

Second thought: How long till some Canadian leftist blames the fact that Harper was elected as the cause of the "sudden rise in non-francophone terrorism in Canada".

Third thought: You notice how when you say "3 tons of ammonium nitrate", no one gives a damn about warrants for the intercepts?

Obviously we've got a night of googling to see if we can find out if these cats have ever surfaced anywhere before.

UPDATE I: Apparently the left now refers to any prison with terrorists as "Guantanamo". Canada just opened its own facility in Ontario.

UPDATE II: Somehow I missed this: "Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, is a computer programmer who emigrated from Egypt 20 years ago with his father, now an engineer with a nuclear utilities services company..." Ack!

UPDATE III: Just in case you are wondering, Ontario gets 40% of its power from nuclear power. Both Gereation sites are near Toronto.

UPDATE IV: Apparently the Canada arrests came from a set of arrests in Georgia. I cant seem to find any information on that, but if thats the case we have a US,Canada, UK cooperation process underway.

UPDATE V: BINGO! Snip
"A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving "material support" to a terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. The student, Syed Haris Ahmed, a mechanical engineering major who had become increasingly devout in his Islamic faith, was arrested March 23 by the FBI."
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"In a separate case that may be related, a 19-year-old Roswell, Ga., man was arrested Monday in Bangladesh. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was arrested by Bangladeshi authorities after at least eight months of federal investigation into him and his family, his sister, Sharmin Sadequee, said Thursday."
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"Ahmed told his family that authorities found a video on the Internet and apparently traced it to him. The video was of a building and was perhaps made during a trip with friends. Ahmed's family members said they did not know the location of the building or when the tape was made. WAGA-TV reported that the station's sources say the FBI believes Ahmed traveled to Pakistan last year to attend a terrorist training camp. His family acknowledged that he traveled to Pakistan, but they said he was attending a religious school. The report cannot be independently verified."

Sadequee, the sister of the man arrested in Bangladesh, said her brother was briefly detained last August at Kennedy International Airport in New York when he was flying to Bangladesh to get married.
She said the family had immigrated from Bangladesh and had lived in Atlanta since 1988. Sadequee said her brother was born in Fairfax, Va., and is a U.S. citizen, although from 2001 to 2004 he was home schooled in Bangladesh and attended a British school there. Sadequee said her family, including an aunt in Canada, has been interviewed by authorities several times since August. She said agents have told the family that her brother's name "came up when we were investigating someone else."

This was reported on April 21st, 2006, but the article makes it clear that the case had been underway for some time.

UPDATE VI: The Bangladesh connection. The timing is interesting:
"It may be mentioned that Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was arrested by police on April 17, 2006 and handed over to FBI from the Kalachandpur Bridge Police Check Post near the Baridhara DOHS, Dhaka. Subsequently, he was flown to the USA by a chartered CIA plane on April 20, 2006 without any order from any court of Bangladesh."

Well, Someone is moving pretty damn fast here...

UPDATE VII: On a possibly related subject, the London bust the other day seems to have become something somewhat worse than car bombings; "Terror cell was planning nerve gas attack on capital".

Posted @ June 03, 2006 05:38 PM | Current Affairs