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2004-04-01 Great White North

Canada has been named again in a chilling new call to arms from al Qaeda. A posting found this week on an al Qaeda website places Canada fifth on a target list.

That idea would probably make more sense to me if I had a turban. As it is, it make no sense.

The website is believed to be published by senior al Qaeda figure, Saif al-Adel. It calls on followers to attack Canadians and other westerners at home and abroad.

The policy would seem to be exploiting the weakest links in a supposed alliance of infidels to break it. But Canada hasn't been that great an ally in the WoT, with the exception of the guys in Afghanistan. I think the Liberals would be much happier if they shared a border with Luxembourg, rather than with us.

Experts warn it could be only a matter of time before Canada is hit. Several other countries named on the list -- such as Spain and Australia -- have already been attacked. Terror experts warn that Canadians have a false sense of security. "We're a target. We're very clearly in its crosshairs," says John Thompson of the Mackenzie Institute. Terror experts warn there appears to be an escalating strategy to strike "softer" targets of the West.

Hey! I guessed that before I read this far! Do I get a prize?

"I think Canadians should take it very seriously," says American terror watchdog Rita Katz. "Especially considering the fact that the manuals they are using are the ones they use to communicate to al Qaeda throughout the world." In Ottawa, Public Security Minister Anne McLellan downplayed any threat.

Which is precisely why it's a waste of explosives for al-Qaeda to target the Great White North...

"We are a named country, that is very clear. That is not new. Osama bin Laden named us. We know that we are a named country and we act accordingly," she told reporters in Ottawa.

"We're negotiating right now to trade most of what is now Canada for part of Belgium — the French part, not that icky Walloon part — and as soon as the deal goes through we're moving."

But a new report suggests Canada wouldn't react very well at all. A Senate committee found that if Canada is hit with a terrorist attack or major natural disaster, its frontline workers won't be equipped to deal with it. The committee found:

* There is still no national plan to deal with biological attacks

* Few police forces are equipped with the proper protective gear

* Police, firefighters and ambulance forces in most communities are all on different communications systems.

* The report also found problems at our national agency responsible for co-ordinating emergencies, the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness.

* The office's phone system when down during the power blackout in Ontario last August.

As well, half of Canada's communities didn't know what the agency was. Of those that did, half questioned its usefulness. Red tape and bureaucratic hassles are hampering their potential effectiveness, said the committee, which studied the issue for more than two years.

See how European they are? They set up a committee. That way they didn't have to do anything for two entire years. Look at all the money they saved, money much better spent on social programs.

Canadians "should be damned mad about it," said Colin Kenny, chairman of the Senate committee on national security and defence, at an Ottawa news conference. "Canadians are entitled to reasonable service when an emergency hits, and entitled to have their officials plan in advance and have the right equipment there and available," Kenny said. Kenny was particularly scornful of OCIPEP, saying it can do everything but respond to an emergency.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-04-01 12:16:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And we're talking the country that cut back immensely on its army recently, IIRC.

Posted by Korora 2004-04-01 12:30:29 AM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-04-01 12:30:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Pardon my ignorance, but when was Australia hit?

Secondly, have the terrorists ever threatened the countries of Norway, Sweden, Holland, or Denmark?

Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-01 1:11:40 AM|| 2004-04-01 1:11:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 And I guarantee you that when they are hit, they'll blame the U.S., rather than the Islamizoids. (At least the leftists will; I know there are still sane Canadians, and hope they aren't the ones killed in the attack.)

When it happens, wonder if the Chomsky-ites will tell the Canadians to ask themselves why the terrorists hate them?

Message to Canadian law enforcement: If you all happen to get into hot pursuit of some of your Islamoterrorists, heading for our border, come on down. Just please try to let us know what you're chasing so we can kill them for you so your screwed-up courts won't let them go.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-01 1:11:49 AM|| 2004-04-01 1:11:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Australia got hit with the Bali bombing.

I believe that Norway has also been singled out by al-Zawahiri.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-04-01 1:12:31 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-04-01 1:12:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ex-lib: I think they're referring to the bombing in Bali, which was aimed at, and murdered, mostly Australians.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-01 1:13:47 AM|| 2004-04-01 1:13:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Barbara - re: chases by RCMP - right on: hammer, meet anvil.

Posted by .com 2004-04-01 1:42:48 AM|| 2004-04-01 1:42:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I demand to know how they prepare their target list. Not once have my beautiful far-flung Isle of Langerhans been mentioned as a potential target. Now how am I going to get US Foreign Aid without this distinction? There be big money in terrorism if you play your cards right, at least that's what my overpaid advisor, Jesse Jackson, tells me. He promised I'd rake it in. Shit! I was counting on that as my seed money, then rolling over and selling out to the Soros Socialist Machine and then my web stuff to PUA, then absconding with the lot and retiring to someplace they've never heard of, like Yap or San Marino... and there are a lot of places they've never heard of. I know - I audited a madrassah "geography" class and it consisted of being able to approximate in which direction Mekkkah lies from anywhere on the planet - within 20 km of Quetta, anyway.

Hey, Izzoids, over here! Hit Meeee! Hit Meeee! Shit.

Posted by .com (Prez for Life - My Isles of Langerhans) 2004-04-01 2:36:52 AM|| 2004-04-01 2:36:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ex-lib:
The Netherlands were named several times in communications coming from Al-Q., the dutch government imedeatly responded by implementing operation: lets put our heads in the sand, if we cant see them, they'll believe they cant see us.

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-04-01 2:44:19 AM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/] 2004-04-01 2:44:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Folks, I'm not understanding why the bad guys would target Canada? In the true sense of the phrase they would be shitting in their mess kit to attack Canada. Since the fall of Afghanistan Canada is/has been their most secure safe harbor. They may be dumb and stupid but are they total imbeciles? That doesn't compute to me as Canada is strategically an ideal location to conduct more attacks on the US. Could be wrong in my thinking. Puzzling to me. Chine

Posted by Chiner 2004-04-01 3:34:29 AM|| 2004-04-01 3:34:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 It's like the summer olympic bids all over again. Canadian mediocrity. Never at the bottom, but somehow we always manage to lose the top spot. I'd like to know who beat us out and why. Who made the top five?

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-01 7:35:52 AM|| 2004-04-01 7:35:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Chiner, there you go being all logical/rational and stuff. To the logical tactician (i.e. you, I, and most folks on this site), Canada would be a dream base of ops to run terror cells out of. Lax immigration laws, weakening defensive posture, easy access to CONUS. However, and (lucky for us) the Al Q nuts are more radical then logical. This is going to be a long war but they will make it easier w/this type of shit.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-01 7:56:04 AM|| 2004-04-01 7:56:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Al Qaeda is not hitting 'soft' targets. They are hitting ANY target.

The US response to 911 knocked AQ back on their heels. Now, 30 months later, Al Qaeda has shifted its strategy: They are shitting in their own pool and on their own folks, supporters and allies, those folks they know will either be too scared or too stupid to respond.

Posted by badanov 2004-04-01 8:19:19 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-04-01 8:19:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Question is:Wich way will Canada jump?
Will they whimper,whine,and cower down?
Or will they get trully pissed and unleash a brigade of Canadian snipers for a hunting expedition?

Posted by Raptor 2004-04-01 8:52:54 AM|| 2004-04-01 8:52:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Will they whimper,whine,and cower down? That's all you see and hear now!

Canadian politician are still living in the 9/10 world. It cannot happen here is the modus operandi. They have absorbed the multicultural mode for so long they have no other way of acting. De Nile flows into the St Lawrence just downstream of Ottawa.

Canada is but a collection of badly run health care providers. And if last years SARS experience is any measure, and serious terrorist attack would quickly collapse that process.

Canada will depend on the US to come to their aid, just like they have done throughout the Cold War. But do not expect any thanks, just whining, wimpering, and cowering. Morally, politically, and economically bancrupt.

There, I feel better.

Posted by john 2004-04-01 9:44:49 AM|| 2004-04-01 9:44:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 I see that Iran's "house arrest" program has really reined Adel in.

Posted by Tibor 2004-04-01 10:56:21 AM|| 2004-04-01 10:56:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 john, should alqaeda hit Canada, we can expect the prime minister to promptly board a private jet for a Caribbean golfing vacation.

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-01 3:27:44 PM|| 2004-04-01 3:27:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Remember a fox does not crap in its own hole and the foxes live among us.

Posted by Anonymous4030 2004-04-05 9:13:27 PM|| 2004-04-05 9:13:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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