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| Canadian arrests reflect new shape of terror |
| 2006-06-06 |
| About a month before Canadian authorities announced the arrests of 17 men last weekend in an alleged plot to bomb buildings in Ontario, the FBI issued an alert to state and local law enforcement authorities across the USA about the potential threat posed by homegrown terrorist groups. By then, the young Canadian suspects, most of them products of middle-class backgrounds, were the focus of an international investigation with ties to the United States and the United Kingdom. What triggered the FBI alert was not an imminent threat against the USA, the bureau now says, but a rapidly emerging pattern in terrorism investigations around the world: the apparent growth of groups that have no direct ties to al-Qaeda but have been inspired by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |