Al-Qaeda terror plot in Canada traced to Afghanistan, Pak, Iran

[maddezmom]

Source: DNA

An al-Qaeda-linked terrorist plot in Canada unearthed Wednesday with the arrest two suspects has been traced back to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai even as police arrested another plotter on Thursday.

The suspects were just "months" away from carrying out the first terrorist attack on Canadian soil, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

While Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh,30, and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, - reported by his landlord to be of Indian origin - were arrested Wednesday in Ottawa, Khuram Khan, 28, was nabbed Thursday morning form the city of London, south-west of Toronto.

Khan, who comes from Pakistan, had taken part in the 2007 Canadian Idol contest wearing the Pakistani national dress of salwar-kameez.


Read more: http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_al-qaeda-terror-plot-in-canada-traced-to-afghanistan-pak-iran_1429317

[dkf]

1. Well that is different...Indian al Qaeda?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Depending on who the landlord is

that could be simply desciptive - not that an Indian Muslim is that unusual. Even I'm only using the expression Muslim because their names identify them as probably being so. If they'd been Alfredo's or Luigi's for example they could've been Pastafarians. :)

[Doctor_J]

3. Good luck my Northern bretheren

Sounds like you're about to commit your entire treasury to combating the Axis Of Evil.

Welcome to hell

[Wilms]

4. Two suspects but only three countries.

Shouldn't they have added North Korea for good measure?

[roxiejules]

5. 7 arrests; Parliament target of bomb plot

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Parliament+target+expert/3451550/story.html#ixzz0xrkKu0zd

After an early Friday arrest potentially raised the number of people in an alleged Ottawa terror cell to seven, the Citizen has learned there is a possible eighth conspirator in the suspected bomb plot against Parliament Hill and coalition troops in Afghanistan.

Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former senior CSIS counter-terrorism agent and one-time RCMP security service officer, said a source close to the investigation has told him at least one suspect, the alleged ringleader Hiva Alizadeh, 30, used Ottawa Public Library computers to communicate with other members of the Ottawa-based cell.

“He was trying to avoid detection and surveillance,” Juneau-Katsuya said. “They wanted to hit Parliament Hill and there was discussion of going against public transportation in Montreal because one of the guys had studied there and new the system.” He added, “they were not excluding the possibility to some major (OC Transpo) hubs,” in Ottawa

“This group posed a real and serious threat to the citizens of National Capital Region and Canada’s national security,” RCMP Chief Supt. Serge Therriault, head of criminal operations for the capital region, told an Ottawa news conference Thursday. He also said the threat was imminent/

[Prometheus Bound]

6. Here's suspect Dr. Khurram Sher on Canadian Idol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHwTja3KBGo


Terrorism's Theatre of the Absurd
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/853336--terrorism-s-theatre-of-the-absurd?bn=1

[Robb]

7. I believe that suspected terrorist was doing the robot.

[Prometheus Bound]

8. Robot, moon walk, the works.

It's a confusing world.