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2006-02-11 Great White North

Canadian converts to radical Islam pose threat - CSIS

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-11 04:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told the Toronto Star in an interview last year the spy agency was aware of Canadians who had gone to Iraq to join the insurgency and was concerned about their eventual return to Canada."

Well Jim, you could arrest them and then hand them over to your ally the US, hmm-kay?

Posted by Quatermass 2006-02-11 06:02|| 2006-02-11 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 no, Quarter - Our intelligence services are not concerned with our saftey. They are only interested in monitoring people. They don't actually want to DO anything to stop bad people. They just watch as they make plans to blow things up and then they watch as they carry out the plots and then they watch some more. They never stop anything. They just watch as the networks grow under their watchful eye. We always thought that they DID something to stop the bad people. But that is just a myth. They do nothing but watch and take notes as people get killed. Like the UN.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-11 11:19|| 2006-02-11 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 An internal 2004 CSIS report entitled Canadian Converts to Radical Islam says such home-grown converts are particularly dangerous because of their familiarity with Western society.

No kidding. In Canada, terrorists carry an Air Miles card. Supporting evidence for tracking Hassan Almreis movements in 2001 was gleaned from the Air Miles he earned by gassing up at Shell a sponsor in the reward program.

Hassan faithfully gassed up at Shell on the way up to Sudbury for each of his three trips in the spring of 2001. A Sudbury cell was arrested.

Hassans last earned Air Mile on record was in Windsor at the border on September 10, 2001. He never used the card again. Hassan languishes still in Metro West detention (but with shoes now ) as far as I know. And I no longer work with Air Miles. But my little experience with tracking terrorists was a hoot.

Nothing says Canadian like an Air Miles card. Knocked CSISs socks off when the supporting evidence popped up on a search.

Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-02-11 11:27|| 2006-02-11 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 That's one way to save up for their ~~attack~~ vacation in Florida.

Posted by ed 2006-02-11 12:04|| 2006-02-11 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 2b, after the performance of MI5 in recent years, I tend to agree. There's no way they can push all the blame onto the politicians - they're both cut from the same cloth.

Posted by Quatermass 2006-02-11 20:01|| 2006-02-11 20:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Fascinating, Hupomoger Clans9827. And now our OldSpook knows, if he happened to poke his head in today. There are times when "not enough privacy" is a good thing, eh? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-11 20:12|| 2006-02-11 20:12|| Front Page Top

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